On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:51 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 18:10:55 Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Move the TSC calibration code to tsc.c. Reimplement it so the
> > pm timer can be used as a reference as well.
>
> Why is the pm timer better than the PIT for this?
>
> I've had mixed success with the pmtimer too.
I had more consistent results on i386 with pmtimer than with the PIT
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm/include/asm-i386/tsc.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm.orig/include/asm-i386/tsc.h 2007-07-15
> > 17:26:45.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm/include/asm-i386/tsc.h 2007-07-15
> > 17:34:42.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -71,4 +71,8 @@ extern void init_tsc_clocksource(void);
> > extern void check_tsc_sync_source(int cpu);
> > extern void check_tsc_sync_target(void);
> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > +extern void tsc_calibrate(void);
> > +#endif
>
> The ifdef shouldn't be needed?
Yep. It can go.
tglx
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