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SubjectRe: Skylake (XPS 13 9350) TSC is way off
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:42 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:38 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> In case it's at all useful, adjtimex -p says:
>>>
>>> mode: 0
>>> offset: 0
>>> frequency: 135641
>>> maxerror: 37498
>>> esterror: 1532
>>> status: 8192
>>> time_constant: 2
>>> precision: 1
>>> tolerance: 32768000
>>> tick: 10000
>>> raw time: 1449098317s 671243180us = 1449098317.671243180
>>>
>>> this suggests a rather small correction, so I really have no idea what
>>> "Adjusting tsc more than 11% (8039115 vs 7759462)" means.
>>>
>>> John, you wrote this code. What does the error message mean?
>
> Also, is there a behavior issue you're seeing or is this just a
> concern about the warning? I assumed it was the first, but digging up
> the thread here I'm not sure I see any specific problems listed.

No, there's no actual problem I'm aware of other than the error
message. Skylake's TSC is different from other chips, and this is
Skylake, and I was worried that something was wrong with the initial
calibration. It seems like the initial calibration may be fine,
though.

--Andy


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