Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpustartup

[Ingo Molnar]

* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Aside from the bogus comment (I'll send a V3 with a fixed comment), does the patch
> > look ok.
> 
> Several months ago, Robin said that he will test updated version
> 
> [PATCH] x86: Make calibrate_delay run in parallel.
> 
> so any reason that you sgi guyes stop that path?

Running calibration in parallel is pretty stupid: cores/threads might 
impact each other and there might be a lot of avoidable noise in the 
results.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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