From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386, numaq: enable TSCs again
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:31:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070525083153.GA27236@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070525081944.GZ31925@holomorphy.com>
* William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> > Andi, Andrew, do you remember why we disabled TSCs on NUMAQ? It was
> > slightly async between CPUs, right? In that case we should try the
> > patch below.
>
> I remember. It was far beyond "slightly async;" they would drift
> minutes apart during reasonable amounts of uptime, though it would
> take at least several days to drift so far (I don't recall how long it
> took).
yes, that's what i meant under 'slightly async'. Some AMD CPUs are like
that too and sched_clock() now handles that fine. So we should try my
patch.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-25 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 7:10 [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:22 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 7:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:35 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-25 7:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25 7:58 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25 8:21 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 7:38 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 7:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 7:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 7:54 ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:45 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25 9:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 10:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:46 ` [patch] sched_clock: fix preempt count imbalance Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:50 ` [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups, #2 Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:55 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 12:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 12:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 16:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25 16:26 ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-25 16:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-25 18:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 19:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-25 10:27 ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 11:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-28 3:12 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-25 8:08 ` [patch] i386, numaq: enable TSCs again Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25 8:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 8:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-05-25 8:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-05-25 8:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 18:16 ` Dave Hansen
2007-05-25 18:23 ` john stultz
2007-05-25 8:15 ` [patch] x86_64: fix sched_clock() Peter Zijlstra
2007-05-25 8:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-25 8:22 ` [patch] sched_clock(): cleanups Peter Zijlstra
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