Re: [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jul 04 2013 - 07:00:58 EST


On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Alex Shi wrote:

> We find some benchmarks drop a lot on tip/sched/core on many Intel boxes,
> like oltp, tbench, hackbench etc. and bisected the commit 5d33b883ae
> cause this regression. Due to this commit, the clocksource was changed
> to hpet from tsc even tsc will be set CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES later
> in clocksource_watchdog.

5d33b883ae is not in tip/sched/core. So what are you testing and
bisecting?

Thanks,

tglx
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