Re: RFC: PCI SD host controller driver & mmc/mmcsd modules improvements

In message: <20081017013946.3534221e.taku_at_tackymt.homeip.net>
            Taku YAMAMOTO <taku_at_tackymt.homeip.net> writes:
: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:28:44 -0600 (MDT)
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote:
: 
: > In message: <48F75773.7030100_at_FreeBSD.org>
: >             Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : No, it's opposite. With lower frequency I have proportionally smaller
: > : delays (more loop iterations). I don't remember exact numbers now, but
: > : general tendency was like: with 2400MHz - 10 iterations, with 1200MHz -
: > : 20 iterations and with 100MHz - 240 iterations. But neither syslog, nor
: > : my eyes saw any visible delay there.
: > 
: > You have more iterations.  I'd have expected less.  This doesn't say
: > anything at all about DELAY, per se.  If you are waiting for 1M cycles
: > at 100MHz, it is only .01s, while at 10MHz it is .1s.  Delay is
: > implemented by reading a counter in the 8254 that's been calibrated.
: > So unless the clock that's clocking it is running FASTER, delay won't
: > be the source of additional iterations.
: > 
: > Hmmm, looking at the i386 delay code, it looks like it depends on
: > tsc_frequency being right when tsc isn't broken.  If that's set
: > bogusly, that could cause DELAY to be slower...
: 
: I have a Core 2 Duo whose TSC ticks regardless of how EST is set.
: In conjunction of tsc_freq_changed() function defined in tsc.c,
: tsc_freq becomes lower than actual, thus shorter DELAY().
: 
: Maybe his machine has the same.

That would cause the problem.  If we're bogusly adjusting tsc_freq we
should fix that...

Warner