From 4aed89d6b515b9185351706ca95cd712c9d8d6a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Tardy Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:23:29 +0100 Subject: x86, lapic-timer: Increase the max_delta to 31 bits Latest atom socs(penwell) does not have hpet timer. As their local APIC timer is clocked at 400KHZ, and the current code limit their Initial Counter register to 23 bits, they cannot sleep more than 1.34 seconds which leads to ~2 spurious wakeup per second (1 per thread) These SOCs support 32bit timer so we change the max_delta to at least 31bits. So we can at least sleep for 300 seconds. We could not find any previous chip errata where lapic would only have 23 bit precision As powertop is suggesting to activate HPET to "sleep longer", this could mean this problem is already known. Problem is here since very first implementation of lapic timer as a clock event e9e2cdb [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Pierre Tardy Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: john stultz Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Andi Kleen LKML-Reference: <1294327409-19426-1-git-send-email-pierre.tardy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index ce65d449b75..1efd3789e3d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static int __init calibrate_APIC_clock(void) lapic_clockevent.mult = div_sc(delta, TICK_NSEC * LAPIC_CAL_LOOPS, lapic_clockevent.shift); lapic_clockevent.max_delta_ns = - clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFFFF, &lapic_clockevent); + clockevent_delta2ns(0x7FFFFFFF, &lapic_clockevent); lapic_clockevent.min_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(0xF, &lapic_clockevent); -- cgit v1.2.3