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Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early in boot

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>>> It will be best if we can support TSC sync capability in x86, but seems
>>> is not easy.
>>
>> Sure, your hardware achieving sync would be best, but even if it does
>> not, we can still use TSC. Using notsc simple because you fail to sync
>> TSCs is quite crazy.
>>
>> The thing is, we need to support unsync'ed TSC in any case, because
>> older chips (pre Nehalem) didn't have synchronized TSC in any case, and
>> it still happens on recent chips if the BIOS mucks it up, which happens
>> surprisingly often :-(
>>
>> I would suggest you try your reconfigurable setup with "tsc=unstable"
>> and see if that works for you. That marks the TSC unconditionally
>> unstable at boot and avoids any further wobbles once the TSC watchdog
>> notices (although that too _should_ more or less work).
> 
> That should do the trick nicely and we might just end up converting notsc
> to tsc=unstable silently so we can avoid the bike shed discussions about
> removing it.
> 

Ok, I will start working on converting notsc to unstable, and modify my 
patches to do what Peter suggested earlier. In the mean time, I'd like 
to hear from Dou if this setup works with dynamic reconfig.

Thank you,
Pasha

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Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 15:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> - 2017-09-27 15:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-09-27 16:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> - 2017-09-27 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 20:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 20:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-09-28 12:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-28 14:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-09-28 14:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> - 2017-09-28 15:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-09-29 17:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] sched/clock: interface to allow timestamps early  in boot Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 15:20 +0200

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