Re: [PATCH 0/10] x86/tsc: fast calibration updates
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Jun 17 2016 - 03:38:45 EST
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016, Len Brown wrote:
> Originally I wrote this series to increase TSC calibration
> accuracy and speed, but it now it also includes
> changes that are mandatory for some systems to work correctly.
> In particular, the Airmont table entires are already being
> used in products, and some BXT steppings will fail without
> the check added by patch 10.
>
> LKP tested this patch series in early April on top of 4.6-rc1
> and found a failure. That failure has been fixed
> upstream in 4.6 by commit 886123fb3a86
> (x86/tsc: Read all ratio bits from MSR_PLATFORM_INFO)
>
> So I have re-based the series on top of 4.7-rc3
> to take advantage of that fix, as well as to handle
> 3 merge conflicts due to intervening upstream commits.
Very nice work and good structured patches!
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>