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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29-rc6


On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> Is the delta anything NTP might get upset about:
>
> 2.6.26: time.c: Detected 2311.847 MHz processor.
> 2.6.29: Detected 2310.029 MHz processor.
>
> If yes, then we need to fix NTP not the calibration code :)

Well, that _is_ about 500ppm difference, and we claim that we _should_
have reached 150ppm with the 15ms delay. We clearly don't seem to have
done that. I'm not quite sure why - we _should_ be finding the edge of the
PIT events to within roughly a microsecond (assuming that's about as long
as an "inb" takes), and that should give us a pretty good fast
calibration, but maybe I'm overlooking something.

Or - and this may be more likely - there are chipsets that aren't very
good at reading the PIT in a tight loop. That may explain why it's a
problem on Jesper's hardware, but we haven't gotten tons of reports of
this from others.

I see that it's a SunFire X2200, which I think uses an nVidia HT
southbridge. I assume it's an nForce4 thing. There shouldn't be anything
odd there, and the PIT read shouldn't be taking any longer than on
anything else, but who knows?

Linus


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