From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754365AbZBGQl4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:41:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752771AbZBGQls (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:41:48 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com ([209.85.217.21]:47011 "EHLO mail-gx0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752519AbZBGQlr (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:41:47 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:newsgroups:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=aAE5I3MCW15vLgVyJbe+7r4JFeR5IyIrXjgroiyt8eW+V8+zDCu4TBEanAaVAWr4FC 6nMehW9qwB89jicYZaC7lV/HN/1ZS0Y4YsLWuBBVDhk+IBkYtLQyrGKmGlUpWFGpA+ZT OE6tocXCVqzwbItrST1KFoaqTQAcErtilcfN8= Message-ID: <498DB9C6.6080501@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:41:42 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: Ben Greear CC: linux-kernel , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable. References: <498C817F.8070306@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <498C817F.8070306@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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.