From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:41:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498DB9C6.6080501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498C817F.8070306@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
> Allow user to force TSC to be treated as a stable clock-source.
> On some systems, with ACPI disabled in the BIOS, the
> kernel determines that the TSC is unstable, when it fact
> it appears to be fine. This patch allows one to force
> the kernel to treat the tsc as stable.
>
> This is against 2.6.29-rc3.
>
> Signed-Off-By: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
I don't think this is a good solution. If the TSC is in fact stable it
would be better to fix the detection to detect it as such. If it's not
then this will cause problems.
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 18:29 PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable Ben Greear
2009-02-07 16:41 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
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