Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] x86, tsc: skip TSC synchronization checks for tsc=reliable | From | john stultz <> | Date | Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:06:01 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 15:42 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote: > tsc=reliable boot parameter is supposed to skip all the TSC stablility > checks during boot time. > > On a 8-socket system where we want to run an experiment with the > "tsc=reliable" boot option, TSC synchronization checks are not > getting skipped and marking the TSC as not stable. > > Check for tsc_clocksource_reliable (which is set via tsc=reliable or > for platforms supporting synthetic TSC_RELIABLE feature bit etc) > and when set, skip the TSC synchronization tests during boot. > > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Looks like a nice cleanup of the tsc=reliable semantics.
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
thanks -john
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