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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Mattias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>,
	Joerg Platte <jplatte@naasa.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] p4-clockmod: Calculate frequency based on TSC value for P4 models 0 and 1
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:13:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902241813.02252.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224165250.GB2998@redhat.com>

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:08:58AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>  > From: Mattias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org>
>  >
>  > Commit ed9cbcd40004904dbe61ccc16d6106a7de38c998 reverted an
>  > incorrect change that resulted in random frequencies being displayed
>  > in some cases for early P4 models because the MSR_FBC_REGISTER_ID
>  > ratio is undefined.
>  >
>  > Result of the revert is that for some users the CPU frequency is
>  > displayed multiplied by a factor 8 in /proc/cpuinfo when p4-clockmod
>  > is loaded.
>  >
>  > Calculating the frequency from the TSC value should work in all
>  > cases.
>
> I already picked this up in cpufreq-next.

OK, thanks. The status of the patch was somewhat unclear as, from what I 
could see in bugzilla, it had been submitted well before the merge window 
for .29 was opened. Good to know it's in the pipeline.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-24  7:08 [PATCH] p4-clockmod: Calculate frequency based on TSC value for P4 models 0 and 1 Frans Pop
2009-02-24 16:52 ` Dave Jones
2009-02-24 17:13   ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-02-25  3:53   ` Dave Jones

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