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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Skylake (XPS 13 9350) TSC is way off
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:56:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALAqxLXjH09M87nO5HOBLzLZ5qnb_-oQ0D17PpQWW4Z6L57ohg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5677B3EB.9030908@jonmasters.org>

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org> wrote:
> On 12/2/15, 6:55 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>
>>>> On a hunch, are you running chrony instead of ntpd?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, this is indeed chrony.
>>
>>
>> Ok. I'll have to look closer. The last time that message came up it
>> was in a report of a bug that chrony uncovered with the internal
>> correction being too slow. I know chrony is much more aggressive
>> compared to ntpd in tweaking the freq value for the initial converging
>> correction at startup, so maybe that along with something else is
>> causing us to get out of spec.
>
>
> Can you copy me on followup? I'm seeing similar behavior with chrony on
> recent kernels on a couple of different ARM server prototype systems.

A patch for this just landed in tip/timers/core and is pending for 4.5
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=ec02b076ceab63f99e5b3d80fd223d777266c236

thanks
-john

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-21 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-02 20:06 Skylake (XPS 13 9350) TSC is way off Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-02 22:52 ` Brown, Len
2015-12-02 23:25   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-02 23:38     ` John Stultz
2015-12-02 23:42       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-02 23:55         ` John Stultz
2015-12-21  8:10           ` Jon Masters
2015-12-21 21:56             ` John Stultz [this message]
2015-12-02 23:42       ` John Stultz
2015-12-02 23:59         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-03  3:25     ` Brown, Len

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