linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: fix cpufreq tsc scaling

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Message-Id: <1243407653.23657.39.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 09:00:53 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix cpufreq tsc scaling

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 00:52 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Subject: x86: fix cpufreq tsc scaling
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> > Date: Wed May 27 00:32:23 CEST 2009
> > 
> > For freqency dependent TSCs we only scale the cycles, we do not account
> > for the discrepancy in absolute value. Add a constant factor so that:
> > 
> >   c1 + f1*cyc == c2 + f2*cyc
> > 
> > LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> > Chucked-on-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> Hey, you misspelled this. I said "Chuckled-on-by"

There is no hiding from your true feelings on the subject ;-)

But yeah, it appears I'm dyslectic after midnight..
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