From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753441AbcDAIX2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 04:23:28 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:59429 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751556AbcDAIX0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 04:23:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 10:23:23 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Stephane Gasparini Cc: Len Brown , x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq Message-ID: <20160401082323.GE3448@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <6e0c25e64e0fb65a42dfc63ad5f660302e07cd87.1459485198.git.len.brown@intel.com> <52f711be59539723358bea1aa3c368910a68b46d.1459485198.git.len.brown@intel.com> <20160401080328.GC3448@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <9222CD56-C603-449C-A049-E518DAFA6883@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9222CD56-C603-449C-A049-E518DAFA6883@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Trim your emails On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:16:42AM +0200, Stephane Gasparini wrote: > > That means these delta's can be arbitrarily large, in fact the MSRs can > > have wrapped however many times. > > 64 bits is 18 446 744 073 709 551 615 > > so even assuming a 10 GHz frequency if my math are good this is more than > 58 years before the MSR wrap around, assuming the device ran always at max > freq. fair enough.. but going with 10Ghz, cpu_khz would be 10e6 ~ 33 bits, which effectively reduces the wrap/overflow time to just 31 bits, which per that frequency is just ~1/4th of a second.