From: timur@tabi.org (Timur Tabi)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Convert PowerPC macro spin_event_timeout() to architecture independent macro
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:43:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F9E766.604@tabi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0DFB48290CDB0C4680160EBE62E8F9A809E9A2E0@039-SN2MPN1-023.039d.mgd.msft.net>
Goel Arpit-B44344 wrote:
> PowerPC uses hardware timer registers provided by PowerPC architecture to implement spin_event_timeout(). These registers make
> PowerPC implementation of spin_event_timeout() more granular in comparison to ones using generic USECS_PER_JIFFY framework. This
> would handle those cases more granularly in which evaluation of "condition" is taking time or fails.
LOL, it seems I forgot how my own code works. Thanks for the reminder.
For some reason, I thought the PowerPC version was also using
'jiffies'. The concern about using 'jiffies' makes a lot more sense now.
Almost every architecture has a timebase counter. Wouldn't it make more
sense to port tb_ticks_per_usec, get_tbl(), and tb_ticks_since() to
other architectures instead? I don't think 'jiffies' is granular enough
for spin_event_timeout().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 12:38 [PATCH 0/2] Make PPC macro spin_event_timeout() architecture independent Arpit Goel
2013-07-30 12:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Make USECS_PER_JIFFY available for generic use Arpit Goel
2013-07-30 12:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Convert PowerPC macro spin_event_timeout() to architecture independent macro Arpit Goel
2013-07-31 7:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-07-31 23:44 ` Timur Tabi
2013-08-01 0:04 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-01 0:13 ` Timur Tabi
2013-08-01 0:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-01 0:20 ` Timur Tabi
2013-08-01 1:36 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-08-01 6:27 ` Srivastava Rajan-B34330
2013-08-01 9:26 ` Goel Arpit-B44344
2013-08-01 0:02 ` Timur Tabi
2013-08-01 4:38 ` Goel Arpit-B44344
2013-08-01 4:43 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2013-07-30 13:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make PPC macro spin_event_timeout() architecture independent Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-07-31 11:09 ` Goel Arpit-B44344
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