From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi.kleen@intel.com,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: clean up clocksource_select
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:22:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D61FF2.8050302@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307041224000.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
On 07/04/2013 06:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > BTW, why we allow user override a second best clocksource? I mean user
>> > can override the tsc with hpet. because undetected unstable tsc?
> The user can decide to override with clocksource=jiffies if he wants
> for testing purposes. That wont switch into highres ever if done from
> the kernel command line. Now we have a sysfs interface, so we need to
> sanity check the user override against highres.
>
> The override is quite useful to test hpet, pmtimer on a machine which
> would always select TSC.
Got it. thanks a lot for friendly explanation!
--
Thanks
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-05 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-04 5:34 [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix Alex Shi
2013-07-04 5:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: clean up clocksource_select Alex Shi
2013-07-04 9:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 10:21 ` Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 1:22 ` Alex Shi [this message]
2013-07-04 5:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] clockesource: set override clocksource Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 5:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: fix can not set tsc as clocksource bug Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 13:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 20:46 ` [PATCH] clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 1:38 ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05 9:13 ` [tip:timers/core] clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 2:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: fix can not set tsc as clocksource bug Alex Shi
2013-07-05 5:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 6:44 ` Alex Shi
2013-07-04 7:58 ` [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 8:13 ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05 14:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-07-05 14:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05 15:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 21:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05 21:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 21:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-05 22:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-06 8:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-06 10:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 11:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 18:11 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-07-04 20:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 1:12 ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05 5:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 6:28 ` Alex Shi
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