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Message-ID: <20100524234221.GA5907@gargoyle.fritz.box>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 01:42:21 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Brian Bloniarz <bmb@...enacr.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>, chris.mason@...cle.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Export tsc related information in sysfs
> > As more and more systems become dependent on clocksource==tsc
> > and more and more people assume nanosecond-class measurements
> > are relatively accurate, I'd expect the accuracy of tsc_khz
> > to become more important. While desktop users might bristle
> > at an extra second of boot delay, I'll bet many server
> > farm administrators would gladly pay that upfront cost
> > if they know an option exists.
>
> Maybe something like a tsc_long_calibration=1 option would allow for
> this?
On a system with synchronized TSC and multiple cores you could also simply do
a longer calibration on another core in the background after a quick "fast
calibration"
-Andi
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