This controls timer frequency in Linux ?
I've played with generic timer frequency in freebsd decreasing
the frequency from 100MHz (default) to 10MHz - it gives some speed up
but not too much.

Ruslan

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:00:50PM -0700, Ali Saidi wrote:
> For linux we pass in a jiffies= on the command line so Linux doesn¹t
> attempt to calculate it on boot. Perhaps FreeBSD is doing some type of
> calibration like jiffies and that is taking the time?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali
> 
> 
> On 4/14/15, 2:35 AM, "Ruslan Bukin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I experience a speed problem running FreeBSD/ARMv8 in FS mode:
> >for some reason gem5 takes ~1 hour to boot FreeBSD multiuser,
> >while Linux on a same host PC (using same gem5.opt binary)
> >takes about 7-10 minutes.
> >
> >I tested FreeBSD boot with rootfs on ATA (PCI bus) disk device as well
> >with Virtio Block (also PCI bus).
> >
> >If I set --debug-start option to some N ticks value (i.e. 10000000000),
> >I see that Linux reaches it in 10 seconds, while FreeBSD is about
> >80 seconds.
> >
> >Any idea what I'm missing? May be Linux tunes some CPU clocks during
> >boot ?
> >
> >Ruslan
> >
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