Re: [PATCH] smpboot: reuse timer calibration

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Oct 29 2019 - 10:36:09 EST


On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 03:19:57PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:28:14 -0600
>
> NO point recalibrating for known-constant tsc ...
> saves 200ms+ of boot time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Arjan, can your Signed-off-by line be added? On what device, did you test
> this?

This patch makes no sense what so ever given the current function, also
it hard codes 0 as being the BSP.

All of this for platforms (!constant_tsc) that barely exist anymore.