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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805081345340.3318@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:46:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@....de>
cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: clocksources: order of preference
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Philipp Kohlbecher wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > We also check the TSC with a watchdog mechanism, which verifies that
> > is is keeping accurate time. When we detect that TSC does not, we
> > replace it by the next available clock source.
> >
> True. In all the cases I know, the watchdog mechanism worked and marked the
> TSC as unstable. The soft lockup only led to a (sometimes considerable) delay
> at boot time.
Yeah, there are some hard to detect cases. This TSC business is a
major PITA.
Thanks,
tglx
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