Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 RESEND] timer: remove check_tsc_flags()

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 5:16 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:36:49 +0100
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:18:54PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:40:05 -0700 Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This code was added 7+ years ago:
> > > >
> > > > commit fb022b85bae4 ("timer: check TSC reliability")
> > > >
> > > > presumably when variant TSCs were still somewhat common?  But this code
> > > > doesn't do anything except print a warning, and the warning doesn't
> > > > give any kind of advice to the user, so let's just remove it.
> > > >
> > > > While the warning has no functional meaning, the /proc/cpuinfo parsing
> > > > consumes a non-trivial amount of time which is especially noticeable in
> > > > secondary processes.  On my test system, it consumes 21ms out of the
> > > > 66ms total execution time for rte_eal_init() in a secondary process.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand