[PATCH v5 1/2] timer: lower rounding of TSC estimation to 100KHz

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Tue Oct 8 09:56:05 CEST 2024


On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 15:05:02 +0100
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 03:26:03PM +0300, Isaac Boukris wrote:
> > > In practice, the frequency is often not a nice round number, while
> > > the estimation results are rather accurate, just a couple of KHz
> > > away from the kernel's tsc_khz value, so it should suffice.
> > >
> > > Rounding to 10MHz can cause a significant drift from real time,
> > > up to a second per 10 minutes.
> > >
> > > See also bugzilla: 959
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Isaac Boukris <iboukris at gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

Series applied.
Thanks Issac.


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David Marchand



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