kernel_optimize_test/arch/i386
Mathieu Desnoyers dacb16b1a0 [PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision
I just found out that some precision is unnecessarily lost in the
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:set_cyc2ns_scale function.  It uses a
cpu_mhz parameter when it could use a cpu_khz.  In the specific case of an
Intel P4 running at 3001.171 Mhz, the truncation to 3001 Mhz leads to an
imprecision of 19 microseconds per second : this is very sad for a timer with
nearly nanosecond accuracy.

Fix the x86_64 architecture too.

Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
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boot [PATCH] fbdev: Resurrect hooks to get EDID from firmware 2005-09-09 13:57:59 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings 2005-06-25 16:24:59 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision 2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
lib [LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock() 2005-09-14 21:47:01 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
mach-es7000 Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6 2005-09-08 01:45:47 -04:00
mach-generic [PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs 2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
mach-visws [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
math-emu [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task register management 2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
mm [PATCH] memory hotplug: i386 addition functions 2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] mm: kill check_user_page_readable 2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
pci [PATCH] PCI fixup for Toshiba laptops and ohci1394 2005-10-28 15:37:02 -07:00
power [PATCH] useless includes of linux/irq.h in arch/i386 2005-09-26 18:29:50 -07:00
defconfig [ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_PCI 2005-08-25 12:40:44 -04:00
Kconfig [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32 2005-10-30 17:37:10 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] i386: add missing Kconfig help text 2005-07-27 16:25:58 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: full dependency check on asm-offsets.h 2005-09-09 19:28:28 +02:00