From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:41:25 +0200 Subject: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 0/8] clocksource: sunxi: Timer fixes and cleanup In-Reply-To: <51CC80E4.8060801@redhat.com> References: <1372281421-2099-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <51CC0566.8010302@redhat.com> <20130627094307.GC8437@lukather> <51CC0BC3.5090309@redhat.com> <20130627165436.GB4319@lukather> <51CC80E4.8060801@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20130628104125.GG4319@lukather> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Hans, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:13:56PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >Siarhei however notes that even higher-end SoCs like the exynos5 have > >similar performances with that regard. So I'm not sure we can do > >something about it, except what is suggested in the above mail, which > >looks rather unsafe. > > > >Anyway, like you said, we have no easy other solution, and we lacked > >such support until now. > > > >So why not merge this code for now, and try to optimise it later if we > >find it's needed. > > That is fine with me, I just wanted to share that this has shown as > a bottleneck in some benchmarks in case anyone has a clever idea to > fix it ... And you were right, since I wasn't aware of such discussion. Thanks! Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: