Re: Unified tracing buffer

[Martin Bligh]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle/state3/usage
>> 171210
>
> C3 stops the TSC. So depending on how many C3 entries you have on the
> different cores, your TSCs will drift apart. Some BIOSes do even a
> lousy job trying to fixup the TSCs on exit from C3, which makes things
> even worse.
>
>>     C1:                  type[C1] promotion[--] demotion[--] latency[001] usage[00000016] duration[00000000000000000000]
>>     C2:                  type[C2] promotion[--] demotion[--] latency[001] usage[00037969] duration[00000000000024288003]
>>     C3:                  type[C3] promotion[--] demotion[--] latency[057] usage[00171818] duration[00000000001881257636]
>>
>> Could these help you?
>
> Yup, explains your TSC observation. Nothing we can do about. Broken by
> system design :( Welcome in the wonderful world of Inhell/BIOS/ACPI !

We have linux patches that sync the TSC on exit_idle. I'll see if I can get
Michael to send them out.

M.
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