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Message-Id: <1194211101.20832.3.camel@lappy>
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:18:21 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>, Zurk Tech <zurktech@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 19:52 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com> writes:
>
> >> Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
> >
> > This is probably wrong. The TSC is on the northbridge on Barcelona
> > chips, so every core on the die should be in sync. Hypothetically you
> > could have different speed northbridges in different sockets, but
> > we've never tried very hard to support that case anyway. We should
> > probably be marking the TSC as stable on Barcelona chips.
>
> It's a little more complicated. Stable clock is only guaranteed as long
> as the CPUs all run on the same clock crystal. That is true
> when they're all on the current motherboard. But at least for K8
> there were several systems that consist of multiple motherboards
> and HT cables inbetween them (like all the 8 socket systems).
> On those the TSCs can drift too with Fam10h. I'm not aware
> of any of those shipping yet, but since it's essentially
> the same platform as K8 they will appear sooner or later.
>
> So far we lack a reliable way to detect this condition. If it could
> be detected it would be possible to switch to TSC timing
> for the single motherboard systems.
Would it not be as simple as looking at the BIOS provided topology
information? If nr sockets > 4 assume multiple board.
Of course one could run a multi board solution and not utilize all
sockets, in which case the heuristic would fail, but I guess buying such
an expensive solution and then not sticking in the cpus is rather rare.
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