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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Support always running TSC on Intel CPUs
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4922F505.9010709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7E82351C108FA840AB1866AC776AEC464291BB4F@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> 
> But, I agree it is confusing.
> 
> How about?
> X86_FEATURE_FIXEDFREQ_MAYSTOP_TSC
> X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS_RUNNING_TSC
> 

A bit verbose, don't you think?

Either way, there seems to be, functionally, C2_TSC and C3PLUS_TSC for 
different CPUs...

	-hpa


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18  0:11 [PATCH] x86: Support always running TSC on Intel CPUs Venki Pallipadi
2008-11-18  0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-18  0:16   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-11-18  0:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-18  0:49       ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-11-18  0:52         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-18  1:05           ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-11-18  1:07             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-18  3:26               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-18  3:27                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-18  8:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-18 14:55   ` Joe Korty
2008-11-18 16:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-18 16:47       ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-11-18 16:54         ` Joe Korty
2008-11-18 17:01         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-11-18 16:48       ` Joe Korty

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