linux-kernel - Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0809061328400.3117@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:29:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Veen <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Dan Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>,
	Garrett Smith <garrett@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements



On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Adding another check after the second get_cycles() makes it reliable:

My original patch actually had that, and Ingo added it to the -tip tree 
too (I think), so that should be the one we're discussing anyway. I just 
didn't think it would ever trigger in practice, which is why I removed it. 
Mea culpa.

		Linus

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