[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v4 2/4] Always running timer correlated clocksource
Jacob Pan
jacob.jun.pan at intel.com
Wed Nov 18 23:53:53 UTC 2015
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:45:20 -0700
"Hall, Christopher S" <christopher.s.hall at intel.com> wrote:
took a while to read the code, i have a few comments/questions
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> index c3f7602..c3f098c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
> @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ int recalibrate_cpu_khz(void)
> #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
This code is used by old p4/k7 clock modulation driver, why do we care?
> unsigned long cpu_khz_old = cpu_khz;
>
> - if (cpu_has_tsc) {
> + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ART)) {
> tsc_khz = x86_platform.calibrate_tsc();
> cpu_khz = tsc_khz;
> cpu_data(0).loops_per_jiffy =
>
> +/*
> + * Convert ART to TSC given numerator/denominator found in
> detect_art()
> + */
> +static u64 convert_art_to_tsc(struct correlated_cs *cs, u64 cycles)
> +{
> + u64 tmp, res;
> +
> + res = (cycles / art_to_tsc_denominator) *
> art_to_tsc_numerator;
> + tmp = (cycles % art_to_tsc_denominator) *
> art_to_tsc_numerator;
> + res += tmp / art_to_tsc_denominator;
> +
iirc there are some issues with 32bit, better use div64_u64()
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