Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:52:31 +0100 | From | Clemens Ladisch <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI. |
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Yasunori Goto wrote: > > I've no sense of feel for how long each calibration run would take. > > Would doing it 5 times show up as a significant increase in the boot > > time for those that care about boot time being as quick as possible? > > Hmm. The loop times is trade off against reliable value.... > Though SMI is rare interruption, I don't know how frequent > hypervisor's switch is.
Could you, just for testing, run the calibration five thousand times or so instead of five times, and count how often you get insane values? (And how much delay does such an SMI add?)
> Each calibration of this has 1 milli second. > Do you think 5 msec is too long?
This shouldn't matter when booting. Anyway, I think it's possible to increase TICK_CALIBRATE without losing too much accuracy.
Best regards, Clemens
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