From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754487Ab1HZX5x (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:57:53 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45235 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754057Ab1HZX5w (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:57:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:57:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jack Steiner , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup Message-Id: <20110826165737.07ac0e44.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20110826165634.398b0d2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20110727135730.GA17717@sgi.com> <20110826165634.398b0d2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:56:34 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Note: patch assumes that all multi-core x86 processor sockets have the same > > clock frequency for all cores. AFAIK, this is true & will continue > > to be true for a long time. Have I overlooked anything??? > > Well, Andi thinks this may become untrue relatively soon. Then what do > we do? err, make that davej@firstfloor.org or something.