From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755387Ab3L1Ni4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:38:56 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59569 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755356Ab3L1Niz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:38:55 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: el_es Subject: Re: TSC Problems (warp between CPUs) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 13:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 81.31.113.250 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex xor.bz> writes: [snip quotes] > > I suspect the TSC cannot be reset in the manner I just attempted (given > what was just said above)? I gather this means I am out of luck and > this is impossible to fix (short of a miracle from my motherboard > manufacturer). > > Alex. > Not being a specialist here at all, so, sorry if it's a lame question, why would the whole calibration routine be only ran once anyway? Maybe a re-run (or a few) would eventually miss the SMI and the warp be gone? (and could be detected and added as a quirk/ workaround for buggy bios(es)/hw too maybe?) (example from real life: guitar tuners [people that is] can go over the entire tuning procedure a few times before achieving perfection, as sometimes tuning one string affects all the others) -L.