Re: [LKP] Re: [clocksource] 6c52b5f3cf: stress-ng.opcode.ops_per_sec -14.4% regression

Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-26T12:39:32Z

On Sat, Apr 24 2021 at 20:29, Feng Tang wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 07:02:54AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And I'm eager to know if there is any real case of an unreliable tsc
> on the 'large numbers' of x86 system which complies with our cpu feature
> check. And if there is, my 2/2 definitely should be dropped.

Nothing prevents BIOS tinkerers from trying to be 'smart'. My most
recent encounter (3 month ago) was on a laptop where TSC drifted off on
CPU0 very slowly, but was caught due to the TSC_ADJUST check in idle.

I'm still thinking about a solution to avoid that extra timer and the
watchdog for these systems, but haven't found anything which I don't
hate with a passion yet.

Thanks,

tglx