Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] NVIDIA Tegra clocksource driver improvements

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31.05.2019 23:31, Daniel Lezcano пишет:
> On 31/05/2019 14:33, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 31.05.2019 11:26, Peter De Schrijver пишет:
>>> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 06:32:45PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> This series primarily unifies the driver code across all Tegra SoC
>>>> generations. In a result the clocksources are allocated per-CPU on
>>>> older Tegra's and have a higher rating than the arch-timer, the newer
>>>> Tegra210 is getting support for microsecond clocksource and the driver's
>>>> code is getting much cleaner. Note that arch-timer usage is discouraged on
>>>> all Tegra's due to the time jitter caused by the CPU frequency scaling.
>>>
>>> I think the limitations are more as follows:
>>>
>>> Chip	timer		suffers cpu dvfs jitter		can wakeup from cc7
>>> T20	us-timer	No				Yes
>>> T20	twd timer	Yes				No?
>>> T30	us-timer	No				Yes
>>> T30	twd timer	Yes				No?
>>> T114	us-timer	No				Yes
>>> T114	arch timer	No				Yes
>>> T124	us-timer	No				Yes
>>> T124	arch timer	No				Yes
>>> T210	us-timer	No				Yes
>>> T210	arch timer	No				No
>>> T210	clk_m timer	No				Yes
>>>
>>> right?
>>
>> Doesn't arch timer run off the CPU clock? If yes (that's what I
>> assumed), then it should be affected by the DVFS. Otherwise I'll lower
>> the clocksource's rating for T114/124/132.
>>
>> TWD can't wake CPU from the power-down state, so it's a solid "No" for
>> TWD in the "can wakeup from cc7" column.
> 
> Wouldn't make sense to rename the timer-tegra20.c to timer-tegra.c now ?

Wouldn't hurt, given the refreshment that driver is getting lately. I'll
include a patch for that in the next revision, thanks.



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