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Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 12:35 pm

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:12:10 +0200, Andreas Herrmann said:

OK.  I'll bite (admittedly not having looked at the actual code yet).

If the TSC is in fact invariant, what's causing the kernel to mark it as
unstable? Sounds almost like a bug being papered over here...
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[PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Thu Sep 18, 12:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU ..., Valdis.Kletnieks, (Thu Sep 18, 12:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Fri Sep 19, 10:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU ..., Thomas Gleixner, (Fri Sep 19, 11:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU ..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Sep 19, 11:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU ..., Andreas Herrmann, (Mon Sep 22, 10:42 pm)