From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752735AbcCaEOc (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:14:32 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f193.google.com ([209.85.161.193]:34916 "EHLO mail-yw0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751995AbcCaEOa (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:14:30 -0400 From: Len Brown To: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/9] x86: TSC calibration update Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:13:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1459397635-4871-1-git-send-email-lenb@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0.rc4.16.g56331f8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cpu_khz and tsc_khz initialization can be unreliable and expensive. They are initialized in tsc_init()/native_calibrate_tsc(), which prints: pr_info("Detected %lu.%03lu MHz processor\n", cpu_khz...) native_calibrate_cpu() first tries quick_pit_calibrate(), which can take over 50.0M cycles to succeed, or as few as 2.4M cycles to fail. On failure, pit_calibrate_tsc() is attempted, which can succeed in as few as 20M cycles, but may consume over 240M cycles before it fails. By comparison, on many processors, tsc frequency can be discovered by table and MSR or CPUID in under 0.002M cycles. Subsequently tsc_refine_calibration_work() checks our work, but it takes under 0.004M cycles. pr_info("Refined TSC clocksource calibration: %lu.%03lu MHz\n", tsc_khz...) Finally, CPU and TSC frequency are not guaranteed to be identical, and this series allows cpu_khz and tsc_khz to differ within a few percent. cheers, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center this patch set is also available via git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux.git x86 Bin Gao (1): x86 tsc: enumerate BXT tsc_khz via CPUID Len Brown (8): x86 tsc_msr: Identify Intel-specific code x86 tsc_msr: Remove debugging messages x86 tsc_msr: Update comments, expand definitions x86 tsc_msr: Correct Silvermont reference clock values x86 tsc_msr: Add Airmont reference clock values x86 tsc_msr: Extend to include Intel Core Architecture x86 tsc_msr: Remove irqoff around MSR-based TSC enumeration x86 tsc: enumerate SKL cpu_khz and tsc_khz via CPUID arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/x86_init.h | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/tsc_msr.c | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ arch/x86/kernel/x86_init.c | 1 + 5 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)