>> >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Mike Belopuhov <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Looks like your acpitimer takes a bit too much to obtain the value
>> >> > and exceeds the threshold that we've imposed.  Adam, I'd like to
>> >> > commit the diff below but unsure how many successes should we
>> consider
>> >> > before accepting the value.
>> >>
>> >> That is a very good question, i am am sorry i don't
>> >> have any information on number of failed/successful attempts, so i
>> can
>> >> not
>> >> offer any great insights.
>> >>
>> >
>> > He had 0/3.  I've decided to go for 2 out of 3 as a success for now,
>> but
>> > increased the threshold to 50.  We'll see what drift values these
>> systems
>> > will be observing.
>> >
>> > Joe, could you please update tsc.c to rev1.3 and if tsc will be picked
>> up
>> > as a timecounter by the system (sysctl -n kern.timecounter.hardware)
>> see
>> > what clock drift your system is going to develop in about a day
>> > (cat /var/db/ntpd.drift).
>>
>> Clock drift is at -16.829. Other amd64 boxes here are at -10.408 and
>> -0.812.
>>
>
> That's acceptable if it's not much worse than it was before...
> Do you have the old number?  You can switch to acpitimer and
> run it for a day with "kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0".

After a day with acpitimer0, drift is -15.565. Not a very big difference.

Thanks,

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Joe Gidi
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