On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 08:25 -0400, Joe Gidi wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Mike Belopuhov <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Looks like your acpitimer takes a bit too much to obtain the value
> >> > and exceeds the threshold that we've imposed.  Adam, I'd like to
> >> > commit the diff below but unsure how many successes should we consider
> >> > before accepting the value.
> >>
> >> That is a very good question, i am am sorry i don't
> >> have any information on number of failed/successful attempts, so i can
> >> not
> >> offer any great insights.
> >>
> >
> > He had 0/3.  I've decided to go for 2 out of 3 as a success for now, but
> > increased the threshold to 50.  We'll see what drift values these systems
> > will be observing.
> >
> > Joe, could you please update tsc.c to rev1.3 and if tsc will be picked up
> > as a timecounter by the system (sysctl -n kern.timecounter.hardware) see
> > what clock drift your system is going to develop in about a day
> > (cat /var/db/ntpd.drift).
> 
> Clock drift is at -16.829. Other amd64 boxes here are at -10.408 and -0.812.
>

That's acceptable if it's not much worse than it was before...
Do you have the old number?  You can switch to acpitimer and
run it for a day with "kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0".

> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> 
> Joe Gidi
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> 
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