On 4 June 2014 19:30, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Saves one register read. Note that the upper count only changes every
> ~178 seconds with a 24MHz source clock, so it's likely it hasn't
> changed from call to call.
Hi Doug,
Have you checked that the time saved in using a 32bits counter instead
of a 64bits one is not lost in the handle of the wrap of sched_clock
which occurs every 178s instead of never ?
sched_clock_poll function will be called every 178s
Regards,
Vincent
>
> Before: 1323852 us for 1000000 gettimeofday in userspace
> After: 1173084 us for 1000000 gettimeofday in userspace
>
> Note that even with this change the CPU is in exynos_frc_read() more
> than 2% of the time in real world profiles of ChromeOS. That
> indicates that it's important to optimize.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
> index ba3a683..7cbe4aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/exynos_mct.c
> @@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ static void exynos4_mct_frc_start(u32 hi, u32 lo)
>
> static inline cycle_t notrace _exynos4_frc_read(void)
> {
> - unsigned int lo, hi;
> - u32 hi2 = __raw_readl(reg_base + EXYNOS4_MCT_G_CNT_U);
> + u32 lo, hi;
> + static u32 hi2;
>
> do {
> hi = hi2;
> --
> 2.0.0.526.g5318336
>
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