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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29-rc6
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> >
> > First boot.
> > [ 0.000000] ref_freq: 2311825 pit_freq: 2310386
> > Second boot:
> > [ 0.000000] ref_freq: 2311803 pit_freq: 2310190
> > Third boot:
> > [ 0.000000] ref_freq: 2311824 pit_freq: 2310080
> > Fourth boot:
> > [ 0.000000] ref_freq: 2311831 pit_freq: 2310130
>
> It's really quite impressively stable, but the fast-PIT calibration
> frequency is reliably about 3/4 of a promille low. Or, put another way,
> the TSC difference over the pit calibration is just a _tad_ too small
> compared to the value we'd expect if that loop of pit_expect_msb() would
> really run at the expected delay of a 1.193182MHz clock divided by 256.
>
> And it's stable in that it really always seems to be off by a very similar
> amount. It's not moving around very much.
>
> I also wonder why it seems to happen mainly just to _you_. There's
> absolutely nothing odd in your system, neither a slow CPU or anything
> else that would stand out.
>
> Grr. Very annoyingly non-obvious.

Indeed. One hint is in the slow calibration path. 3 of 4 boots have:

> > [ 0.000000] TSC: PIT calibration matches PMTIMER. 2 loops

So the slow calibration path detects some disturbance.

Jesper, can you please apply the following patch instead of Johns and
provide the output for a couple of boots? The output is:

Fast TSC calibration using PIT
tsc 43425305 tscmin 624008 tscmax 632610

Thanks,

tglx

--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -317,15 +317,22 @@ static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate

if (pit_expect_msb(0xff)) {
int i;
- u64 t1, t2, delta;
+ u64 t1, t2, t3, delta;
unsigned char expect = 0xfe;
+ unsigned long tscmin = ULONG_MAX, tscmax = 0;

- t1 = get_cycles();
+ t1 = t2 = get_cycles();
for (i = 0; i < QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS; i++, expect--) {
if (!pit_expect_msb(expect))
goto failed;
+ t3 = get_cycles();
+ delta = t3 - t2;
+ t2 = t3;
+ if ((unsigned long) delta < tscmin)
+ tscmin = (unsigned int) delta;
+ if ((unsigned long) delta > tscmax)
+ tscmax = (unsigned int) delta;
}
- t2 = get_cycles();

/*
* Make sure we can rely on the second TSC timestamp:
@@ -350,6 +357,8 @@ static unsigned long quick_pit_calibrate
delta = (t2 - t1)*PIT_TICK_RATE;
do_div(delta, QUICK_PIT_ITERATIONS*256*1000);
printk("Fast TSC calibration using PIT\n");
+ printk("tsc %ld tscmin %ld tscmax %ld\n",
+ (unsigned long) (t2 - t1), tscmin, tscmax);
return delta;
}
failed:

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