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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Alan Bennett <embedded@akb.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Timers on mpc8248 etc...
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:43:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474DFD15.603@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfa0697f0711281541l31225d59ne78c8fe40286052e@mail.gmail.com>

Alan Bennett wrote:
> I've got a routine that needs to delay for X microseconds, this is a
> must.  The command after schedule_timeout must has to wait for the HW
> to complete a task that takes X microseconds.
> 
> I would think that one way to do this is with a simple
> schedule_timeout.  But in the example below, the time that passes from
> run1() to dontrun() is far less than 3.2 msecs.  Infact, sometimes its
> ~ 800 micros according the a analyzer looking at points triggered in
> run1() and donrun().  Could this be a configuration problem with the
> timer/interrupt that generates the jiffies?

Are you sure the timebase frequency is set correctly in the device tree?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 23:41 Timers on mpc8248 etc Alan Bennett
2007-11-28 23:43 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-11-29  4:06   ` Alan Bennett
2007-11-29 11:31     ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-11-29 13:50       ` Alan Bennett
2007-11-29 19:05         ` Alan Bennett

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