linux-kernel - Re: [GIT pull] x86/timers for 4.10

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Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:29:12 +0100
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/timers for 4.10

On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 11:26 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 09:20:06AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc_sync.c
> > @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ void check_tsc_sync_source(int cpu)
> >  > > 	> > if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST))
> >  > > 	> > 	> > atomic_set(&test_runs, 1);
> >  > > 	> > else
> > -> > 	> > 	> > atomic_set(&test_runs, 3);
> > +> > 	> > 	> > atomic_set(&test_runs, 5);
> 
> So
> 	> 	> atomic_set(&test_runs, max_t(unsigned int, 3, num_online_nodes() + 1));

I don't know that there is a correlation, ergo the "log" wording ;-)

	-Mike