* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:39:00AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/5th-gen-core-family-spec-update.pdf
> > >
> > > BDM11 and BDM55 (not 57) tell us that the PMU will generate crap output
> > > if you don't do this. Non-fatal but gibberish.
> >
> > Should be part of the changelog?
>
> Sure, lemme go make that happen.
>
> > So I did not say rounding up, I meant this sentence:
> >
> > > > > + * [...] We combine the two to enforce
> > > > > + * a min-period of 128.
> >
> > IMO ambiguously suggests that the result of the combination of the two
> > is to enforce a min-period of 128. Would somethin like this:
> >
> > We combine the two to enforce
> > a min-period of 128, rounded (down) to multiples of 64.
> > The original period is still kept by the core code and is
> > approximated in the long run via these slightly fuzzed
> > hardware-periods.
>
> Like so then?
Yeah, looks good to me!
Thanks,
Ingo
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