Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:45:02 +0900
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix the possibility of insane return value of hpet_calibrate() against SMI.
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
       Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, robert.picco@hp.com,
       venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, vojtech@suse.cz, mingo@redhat.com
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> >>> Each calibration of this has 1 milli second.
> >>> Do you think 5 msec is too long?
> >>>       
> >> This shouldn't matter when booting.  Anyway, I think it's possible to
> >> increase TICK_CALIBRATE without losing too much accuracy.
> >>     
> >
> > Hmm. If the person who is trying to reduce boot time for fastboot dislikes this impact,
> > then I'll try Vojtech-san's way.
> >   
> 
> That probably makes sense -- if it is extremely rare, and if you get two
> values that are the same (within some small delta) then you probably
> are 99.99% confident that you have the right data.

Ok. I'll make it.

Thanks for your comment.


-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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