Re: io apic + tsc = slowdown (bugreport + possible fix)

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 05:07, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > Looking closer at the proposed workaround by Maciej posted here:
> > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-04/3174.html
> > 
> > Why exactly are we using cpu_has_tsc to switch this? I'm not sure I'm
> > following how this is TSC dependent. Additionally the comment change
> > looks to be from the 2.4 era. 
> 
>  One of the two users of timer_ack is do_slow_gettimeoffset().  When the
> TSC is selected for use as a high-precision timer do_fast_gettimeoffset()
> is used instead.
> 
>  Please folks do read the sources sometimes -- I've been repeatedly
> clarifying these bits while they are all documented in the sources,
> sigh...

Whoops, sorry, I had the impression the patch was targeted against 2.6,
where there is no do_slow_gettimeoffset() and the only user of timer_ack
is in do_timer_interrupt(). 

So am I incorrect that the TSC bits can be dropped for the 2.6 version
of the patch?

thanks
-john