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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: opendmb@gmail.com, Tim Ross <tim.ross@broadcom.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/irq-brcmstb-l2: Avoid saving mask on shutdown
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:45:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il09ufl4.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <958c27b1-26d7-4927-976b-4502f33f31f7@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 22 2024 at 15:26, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 4/22/24 14:29, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> +	if (save)
>>> +		b->saved_mask = irq_reg_readl(gc, ct->regs.mask);
>> 
>> what's the conditional actually buying you except more complex code?
>
> Not much this is an optimization that is simple to carry out. There can 
> be dozens of such L2 interrupt controllers in a given system and the 
> MMIO accesses start adding up eventually.

I'm impressed by saving ~12 microseconds per one dozen of interrupt
controllers on system shutdown :)


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  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-22 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-16 19:43 [PATCH] irqchip/irq-brcmstb-l2: Avoid saving mask on shutdown Florian Fainelli
2024-04-22 21:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-22 22:26   ` Florian Fainelli
2024-04-22 23:45     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-04-24 16:50       ` Florian Fainelli
2024-04-24 17:19         ` Thomas Gleixner

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