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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:53:54 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] Make cpu_tsc_khz updates use local CPU
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On 07/19/2010 11:06 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>>> +static void tsc_khz_changed(void *data)
>>>   {
>>> -    /* nothing */
>>> +    struct cpufreq_freqs *freq = data;
>>> +    unsigned long khz = 0;
>>> +
>>> +    if (data)
>>> +        khz = freq->new;
>>> +    else if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
>>> +        khz = cpufreq_quick_get(raw_smp_processor_id());
>>> +    if (!khz)
>>> +        khz = tsc_khz;
>>> +    __get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz) = khz;
>>>   }
>>
>> Do we really need to cache cpufreq_quick_get()?  If it's really 
>> quick, why not just use it everywhere instead of cacheing it?  Not a 
>> comment on this patch.
>>
>
>
> If cpufreq is compiled in, but disabled, it returns zero, so we need 
> some sort of logic.

Maybe it's better to put it into cpufreq_quick_get().  Inconsistent APIs 
that appear to work are bad.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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