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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkp@lists.01.org, lkp@intel.com
Subject: Re: [LKP] Re: [clocksource] 6c52b5f3cf: stress-ng.opcode.ops_per_sec -14.4% regression
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:39:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmyhte2q.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210424122920.GB85095@shbuild999.sh.intel.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20  6:49 [clocksource] 6c52b5f3cf: stress-ng.opcode.ops_per_sec -14.4% regression kernel test robot
2021-04-20 13:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-20 14:05   ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-21  6:07     ` [LKP] " Xing, Zhengjun
2021-04-21 13:42       ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-22  6:58         ` Xing Zhengjun
2021-04-22  7:41           ` Feng Tang
2021-04-22 14:24             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-22 16:57               ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-23  6:11                 ` Feng Tang
2021-04-23 14:02                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-24 12:29                     ` Feng Tang
2021-04-24 17:53                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-25  2:14                         ` Feng Tang
2021-04-25  3:14                           ` Feng Tang
2021-04-25 19:15                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-25 19:14                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-26 12:39                       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-04-26 14:05                         ` Feng Tang
2021-04-26 14:33                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-26 15:12                             ` Feng Tang
2021-04-23  2:15               ` Xing Zhengjun
2021-04-23  4:12                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-23 19:14               ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-04-23 21:14                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-23 23:39                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-23 19:09             ` Thomas Gleixner

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