Re: x86: tsc: v2 make TSC calibration more immune to interrupts

[john stultz]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 21:46 +0200, Kasper Pedersen wrote:
> On 04/21/2011 12:39 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > 
> > Have you considered disabling interrupts while calibrating?  That would
> > ensure that you only have to care about SMIs, not arbitrary interrupts.
> >
> > Also, on more recent x86 systems you could look at MSR_SMI_COUNT (MSR
> > 0x34) to detect if any SMIs have occurred during the sample period.
> > rdmsr, start sample period, stop sample period, rdmsr, if delta of 0
> > then no SMIs occurred.  Exists on Nehalem and newer, at least.
> 
> 
> I have now tested this, and it is worth doing.

Cool! When you have the chance, send out your latest patch and I'll
review/ack and hopefully queue it for tglx.

thanks
-john


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