Re: [BUG] perf: perf sched warning possibly due to clockgranularity on AMD

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 07 2012 - 02:51:39 EST


On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 13:19 -0800, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
>
> Yes. If these two flags are set, TSC should be consistent and sched_clock_stable
> could be set and it will be reset if there is a call to mark_tsc_unstable().

Only trouble is that sched_clock_cpu() et al. will jump when you flip
sched_clock_stable to 0 after you started using it.. its something we
might want to fix.

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