TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?)

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sat Oct 29 12:55:49 PDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:54:57AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In general, if you run powerd to change your cpu clock (= TSC
> frequency), using TSC as timecounter is _not_ what you want to do.

The issue is TSC is not guarnetted to be power setting invarient.
Meaning if you change the frequence of the CPU thru power management, the
rate the TSC counts can change.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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