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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:40:05 -0700
Jim Harris <james.r.harris at 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 at intel.com>

Yes this code is dead.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>