Re: [GIT pull] x86/timers for 4.10

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Feb 08 2017 - 08:08:03 EST


On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 12:44 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > [ 0.177102] [Firmware Bug]: TSC ADJUST differs: Reference CPU0:
> > -6495898515190607 CPU1: -6495898517158354
>
> Yay, another "clever" BIOS ....

Oh yeah, that reminds me...

I met one such box, and the adjustment code did salvage it, but I had
to cheat a little for it to do so reliably, as it would sometimes still
see a delta of 1 or 2 whole cycles, and hand me a useless wreck instead
quick like bunny big box.

-Mike