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Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq
Date 2016-04-01 10:30 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:23:23AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Trim your emails
> 
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:16:42AM +0200, Stephane Gasparini wrote:
> 
> > > That means these delta's can be arbitrarily large, in fact the MSRs can
> > > have wrapped however many times.
> > 
> > 64 bits is 18 446 744 073 709 551 615
> > 
> > so even assuming a 10 GHz frequency if my math are good this is more than
> > 58 years before the MSR wrap around, assuming the device ran always at max
> > freq.
> 
> fair enough.. but going with 10Ghz, cpu_khz would be 10e6 ~ 33 bits,

I can't do maths this morning; 23 bits

> which effectively reduces the wrap/overflow time to just 31 bits, which
> per that frequency is just ~1/4th of a second.

41 giving lots more, but a reasonable time to wrap/overflow.

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[PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-04-01 06:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freqy Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-01 10:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 10:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq Stephane Gasparini <stephane.gasparini@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-01 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 10:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq Stephane Gasparini <stephane.gasparini@linux.intel.com> - 2016-04-01 11:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 11:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-01 12:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and scaling_cur_freq Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> - 2016-04-02 07:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Calculate MHz using APERF/MPERF for cpuinfo and  scaling_cur_freq Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-01 10:20 +0200

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