Re: [RFC patch 0/4] TSC calibration improvements

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Sep 06 2008 - 16:38:35 EST


On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Adding another check after the second get_cycles() makes it reliable:
>
> My original patch actually had that, and Ingo added it to the -tip tree
> too (I think), so that should be the one we're discussing anyway. I just
> didn't think it would ever trigger in practice, which is why I removed it.
> Mea culpa.

My bad. Did not test that against -tip, just applied it from mail :)

Just checked. The -tip version still has the expect-- in the for()
which might lead to stupid results depending on the gcc madness level.

Thanks,

tglx
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