0108-smpboot-reuse-timer-calibration.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:28:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] smpboot: reuse timer calibration

NO point recalibrating for known-constant tsc ...
saves 200ms+ of boot time.
---
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index a698196377be..5f3ee7c31c8a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -1569,6 +1569,9 @@ unsigned long calibrate_delay_is_known(void)
 	if (!constant_tsc || !mask)
 		return 0;
 
+	if (cpu != 0)
+		return cpu_data(0).loops_per_jiffy;
+
 	sibling = cpumask_any_but(mask, cpu);
 	if (sibling < nr_cpu_ids)
 		return cpu_data(sibling).loops_per_jiffy;
-- 
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