Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes:
> On 2022/07/28 12:57, Scott Cheloha wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 07:55:40AM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote: >> > >> > This is breaking timecounter selection on my x13 Ryzen 5 Pro laptop >> > running the latest kernel from snaps. >> >> Define "breaking". > > That's clear from the output: > > : On 2022/07/28 07:55, Dave Voutila wrote: > : > $ sysctl -a | grep tsc > : > kern.timecounter.choice=i8254(0) tsc(-1000) acpihpet0(1000) > : > acpitimer0(1000) > : > machdep.tscfreq=2096064730 > : > machdep.invarianttsc=1 > : > > : > $ sysctl kern.timecounter > : > kern.timecounter.tick=1 > : > kern.timecounter.timestepwarnings=0 > : > kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 > : > kern.timecounter.choice=i8254(0) tsc(-1000) acpihpet0(1000) > : > acpitimer0(1000) > >> The code detects TSC desync and marks the timecounter non-monotonic. > > That's good (and I think as would have happened before) > >> So it uses the i8254 instead. > > But that's not so good, there are higher prio timecounters available, > acpihpet0 and acpitimer0, which would be better choices than i8254. Exactly my point. Thanks Stuart.
