Re: Fwd: [GIT PULL] timer changes for v3.10

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On 05/06/2013 11:53 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> wrote:
>
>>> is even worse than that. Machine can stay is s2ram for weeks (for a
>>> lot more if it is desktop and you do s2ram for powersaving). Also
>>> temperature of CPU varies a lot between active and s2ram states. Is
>>> TSC good enough?
>> Yes, I think it is relatively precise. Per our test, system time backed
>> by the S3 non stop TSC only has 1 second drift after 4 days running
>> (with mixed running and S3 states). And before using this feature, we've
>> seen many time drift problems due to the RTC HW or system FW with our
>> platforms.
> Nice result ...
>
> Is that with NTP running?
>
> Without NTP, the TSC fast-calibration on bootup is not (expected to be)
> nearly as precise as the 1:345600 precision you've measured.

We also do refined calibration now on the TSC asynchronously over a 
period of seconds at boot up that gives us much better accuracy then the 
fast calibration. This helps provide much more consistent boot-to-boot 
TSC frequencies.

thanks
-john