On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:31:40AM +0000, Lofstedt, Marta wrote: > Hi Peterz, > > I tested your patch-set on the same Core2 machine as where we discovered the > regression. > With the tsc=unstable boot param that passrate has improved significantly; > 350 fails -> 15 fails.
So is that the same as before, or still worse? I don't really have a handle on what your benchmark is here, nor what how 'good' is defined. If its still worse than before, I'm completely confused. Because with "tsc=unstable" the patch you fingered is a complete no-op (__gtod_offset == 0).