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From: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" <cpufreq@vger.kernel.org>,
	davej <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] cpufreq: constant cpu_khz
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:34:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219685675.1979.5.camel@alok-dev1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825123926.GC8663@elte.hu>

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 05:39 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I noticed that my sched_clock() was slow on a number of machine, so
> > > I started looking at cpufreq.
> >
> > The below seems to fix the problem for me, but I don't have enough
> > clue to know if its the correct fix, please advise.
> 
> > -     set_cyc2ns_scale(tsc_khz_ref, freq->cpu);
> > +     set_cyc2ns_scale(tsc_khz, freq->cpu);
> 
> hm, that too is due to the tsc.c unification - Alok Cc:-ed. Applied your
> fix to x86/urgent.
> 

Yes the fix is correct, tsc_khz can change in the loop above.
Looking at tsc_64.c before the integration, that too had this bug but
32bit was good. So this is the right fix.

Thanks,
Alok


>         Ingo


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-25  6:33 [BUG] cpufreq: constant cpu_khz Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-25 11:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-25 12:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 17:34     ` Alok Kataria [this message]
2008-08-25 17:55     ` Dave Jones
2008-08-25 17:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 18:22         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-25 19:27           ` Peter Zijlstra

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