Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:41:42 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: (v2) Allow user to force 'tsc' to be treated as stable. |
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Ben Greear wrote: > Allow user to force TSC to be treated as a stable clock-source. > On some systems, with ACPI disabled in the BIOS, the > kernel determines that the TSC is unstable, when it fact > it appears to be fine. This patch allows one to force > the kernel to treat the tsc as stable. > > This is against 2.6.29-rc3. > > Signed-Off-By: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
I don't think this is a good solution. If the TSC is in fact stable it would be better to fix the detection to detect it as such. If it's not then this will cause problems.
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