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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:31:33 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu, robert.richter@....com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>, Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [BUG] perf: perf sched warning possibly due to clock granularity on AMD On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:27 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 05:54:19PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:46 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > across all CPUs in the entire system. > > > > > > Right, by the "entire system" you mean consistent across cores and > > > sockets but not necessarily across cabinets, as in the comment above, > > > correct? > > > > > > If so, let me ask around if this holds true too. > > > > Every CPU available to the kernel. So if you run a single system image > > across your cabinets, then yes those too. > > Ok, but what about that sentence "(but not across cabinets - we turn > it off in that case explicitly.)" - I don't see any place where it is > turned off explicitly... Maybe a stale comment? I suspect it might be the sched_clock_stable = 0 in mark_tsc_unstable(), but lets ask Venki, IIRC he wrote all that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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