From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lundell <linux@lundell-bros.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: x86 TSC time warp puzzle
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:13:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112429616.24111.7.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB6004629635@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 23:05 -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> It can be SMI happening in the platform. Typically BIOS uses some SMI
> polling
> to handle some devices during early boot. Though 500 microseconds sounds
> a
> bit too high.
>
Nope, that sounds just about right. Buggy BIOSes that implement ACPI
via SMM (or so I have been told) can stall the machine for over a
millisecond, this is why some laptops lose timer ticks at HZ=1000. The
issue is well known by Linux audio users, as it causes big problems for
people who buy laptops for live audio use.
A list of known good/bad machines would be a tremendous help, but no one
knows the exact extent of the problem. All Acer laptops seem to be
affected.
Hardware manufacturers (laptops anyway) don't seem to care about
anything below 1-2ms because Windows uses HZ=100 and the ASIO drivers on
that platform only go down to about ~1.5 ms latency.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-02 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-02 7:05 x86 TSC time warp puzzle Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-04-02 8:13 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-04-03 4:04 ` Jonathan Lundell
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2005-04-02 1:43 Jonathan Lundell
2005-04-04 8:59 ` P
2005-04-04 13:58 ` Joe Korty
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