linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/tsc: use CPUID.0x16 to calculate missing crystal frequency

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 09:25:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>
cc:     mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
        rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, linux@...lessm.com,
        peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/tsc: use CPUID.0x16 to calculate missing
 crystal frequency

On Thu, 9 May 2019, Daniel Drake wrote:

> native_calibrate_tsc() had a data mapping Intel CPU families
> and crystal clock speed, but hardcoded tables are not ideal, and this
> approach was already problematic at least in the Skylake X case, as
> seen in commit b51120309348 ("x86/tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake
> Xeon").

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