linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: apic

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:11:27 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: apic - unify APIC_DIVISOR

[Venki Pallipadi - Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:03:50PM -0700]
...
| 
| If there is no pressing reason to change the initial calibration value, how
| about the simple patch below.
| 
| The 10^9 value that is used for 100 mS calibration time is pretty big as
| tglx's comment points out. We will only underflow it if there is a
| bus clock running at 10 GHz * 16 = 160 Ghz.
| 
| This way we will not fix something that is not really broken today and will not
| break in foreseeable future.
| 
| Thanks,
| Venki

I personally have no objection. Thanks Venki.
Btw since Ingo already picked the patch from me
maybe you could make a patch with numbers you mentoined
(ie changelog) and fix 0xffffffff to 10^9?

		- Cyrill -
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