On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 06:01:18AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This looks like a copy and paste mistake in commit 1b6a99892d ("x86:
> Simpler time handling when TSC is constant across all power saving
> states"), responsible for occasional many-microsecond cross-CPU skew of
> what NOW() returns.
>
> Also improve the correlation between local TSC and stime stamps
> obtained at the end of the two calibration handlers: Compute the stime
> one from the TSC one, instead of doing another rdtsc() for that
> compuation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> ---
> As to 4.7 inclusion: This of course looks like a pretty blatant mistake
> that has been there for many years (and hence many releases). There's
> certainly non-zero risk that I'm overlooking something here (despite
> Joao apparently having come to the same conclusion), so I can't really
> make up my mind on whether to request this patch to be put there right
> away, or rather having linger in -unstable for a while.
>
Leave it in unstable for a while please.
I don't want to delay the release any further.
Wei.
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