On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > 
> > As Linus suggested, we should be moving the tsc_read_refs outside
> > of the loop, this gives us more accurate TSC calibration when
> > calibrating against hpet/pmtimer, since we are now calibrating over
> > a period of 250ms.
> 
> Side note: I'd like to change that.
> 
> 250ms is a _loong_ time. It's a really really long time. It's 
> human-noticeable. A quarter of a second at boot is just too long.

yeah it's insane ;-(
(since we boot a kernel in 1 second and a full OS including the kernel
in 5)

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>  - do other things while calibrating.

one option for that is the fastboot patchkit in -next ;-)

but at some point, even doing things in parallel/asynchronous isn't
helping, "parallel shit is still shit" :)


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