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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi.kleen@intel.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: clean up clocksource_select
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:22:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D61FF2.8050302@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307041224000.11637@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>

On 07/04/2013 06:27 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > BTW, why we allow user override a second best clocksource? I mean user
>> > can override the tsc with hpet. because undetected unstable tsc?
> The user can decide to override with clocksource=jiffies if he wants
> for testing purposes. That wont switch into highres ever if done from
> the kernel command line. Now we have a sysfs interface, so we need to
> sanity check the user override against highres.
> 
> The override is quite useful to test hpet, pmtimer on a machine which
> would always select TSC.

Got it. thanks a lot for friendly explanation!

-- 
Thanks
    Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-05  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04  5:34 [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix Alex Shi
2013-07-04  5:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] clocksource: clean up clocksource_select Alex Shi
2013-07-04  9:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 10:21     ` Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:27       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  1:22         ` Alex Shi [this message]
2013-07-04  5:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] clockesource: set override clocksource Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:23   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04  5:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: fix can not set tsc as clocksource bug Alex Shi
2013-07-04 10:55   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 13:04     ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 20:46       ` [PATCH] clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  1:38         ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05  9:13         ` [tip:timers/core] clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  2:48       ` [PATCH 3/3] clocksource: fix can not set tsc as clocksource bug Alex Shi
2013-07-05  5:41         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  6:44           ` Alex Shi
2013-07-04  7:58 ` [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04  8:13   ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05 14:23   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-07-05 14:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05 15:24       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 21:22         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05 21:50           ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05 21:58             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-05 22:17               ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-06  8:37                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-07-06 10:50             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 11:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-04 18:11   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-07-04 20:27     ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  1:12       ` Alex Shi
2013-07-05  5:58         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-07-05  6:28           ` Alex Shi

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