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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pete Wyckoff <pw@osc.edu>
Cc: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: nosmp/maxcpus=0 or 1 -> TSC unstable
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:31:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116153137.GA18553@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115225039.GA25701@osc.edu>


* Pete Wyckoff <pw@osc.edu> wrote:

> > pretty sure this is the culprit is that num_possible_cpus() > 1, 
> > which would mean cpu_possible_map contains the second cpu... but i'm 
> > not quite sure what the right fix is... or perhaps this is all 
> > intended.
> 
> We've seen the same problem.  We use gettimeofday() for timing of 
> network-ish operations on the order of 10-50 us.  But not having the 
> TSC makes gettimeofday() itself very slow, on the order of 30 us.

30 usecs is too much - even with pmtimer it's typically below 5 usecs. 
Could you run this on your box:

  http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/time-warp-test.c

and send back what it reports? (run it for a few minutes)

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-12 19:48 nosmp/maxcpus=0 or 1 -> TSC unstable dean gaudet
2008-01-15 22:50 ` Pete Wyckoff
2008-01-16  4:13   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-16 15:31   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-16 16:24     ` Pete Wyckoff

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