Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs)
From: Alex
Date: Tue Dec 31 2013 - 16:25:31 EST
A Happy new year to all :)
Just wondering whether anyone has any ideas on how I could force the
TSC to resync?
Starting to get a bit desperate. The motherboard manufacturers support
is useless.... They keep telling me to install Windows *groan*. I dont
think there is any easy way to expose what clock source the OS is using
even in windows.
I even tried firing an email at the AmiBios guys. I think I have
exhausted every avenue of help as far as the hardware goes.
Any suggestions?
Kind regards,
Alex
On 2013-12-29 11:21, Alex wrote:
On 2013-12-29 01:35, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
not guaranteed to be precise. For example a SMI (System Management
Interrupt) could interrupt the software flow that is attempting to
write
the time-stamp counter immediately prior to the WRMSR. This could
mean
the value written to the TSC could vary by thousands to millions of
clocks.
Yes SMI is a disaster area for any real time activity (and many
other
things ;) ), but many systems actually make little use of it,
especially
once the USB is owned by the OS.
For synchronization you can retry the sync if it isn't within an
acceptable range. The odds of getting an SMI mid sync setup should
be
very very low, so the odds of repeating the failure several times
should
be negligible and after a few tries you could give up and assume the
hardware is buggered then fall back to HPET.
Hi Alan,
The sync retry sounds like an interesting strategy but is outside my
knowledge
scope as a regular end user (I do have a reasonable understanding of
C and can patch+
recompile) but I lack the architecture knowledge to implement a patch
to do this.
Any suggestions?
--
Kind Regards,
Alex.
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