linux-kernel - Re: PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.

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Message-ID: <498DB9C6.6080501@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:41:42 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: PATCH:  (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable.

Ben Greear wrote:
> Allow user to force TSC to be treated as a stable clock-source.
> On some systems, with ACPI disabled in the BIOS, the
> kernel determines that the TSC is unstable, when it fact
> it appears to be fine.  This patch allows one to force
> the kernel to treat the tsc as stable.
> 
> This is against 2.6.29-rc3.
> 
> Signed-Off-By:  Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>

I don't think this is a good solution. If the TSC is in fact stable it 
would be better to fix the detection to detect it as such. If it's not 
then this will cause problems.
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