On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Andi Kleen wrote: > > We can just detect the deviation in the callback itself: > > > > u64 now = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns(); > > > > if (now - __this_cpu_read(nmi_timestamp) < period) > > return; > > > > __this_cpu_write(nmi_timestamp, now); > > > > It's that simple. > > It's a simple short term hac^wsolution. Yes, and way simpler and less complex for pushing into stable. > But if we had a (hypothetical) system with let's say 10*TSC max you > may end up with quite a few false ticks, as in unnecessary > interrupts. With 100*TSC it would be really bad. And hypothetical systems with 100*TSC justify all that? > There were systems in the past that ran TSC at a much slower frequency, > such as the early AMD Barcelona systems. > > So the problem may eventually come back if not solved properly. There are better ways to do that than using heuristics. We have to deal with 3 variants of the reference counter: 1) Core and Atom: counts bus cycles and we know that frequency already from the local apic calibration 2) Nehalem, Westmere: Same as TSC 3) Sandybridge and later: XCLK which is 100MHz No magic calibration, just use the information which we have on our hands already. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html