From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] clocksource: stm32: increase min delta value Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 10:28:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4a9d9f25-ffcd-714c-c70f-ef1e9dbc8747@linaro.org> References: <1510649563-22975-1-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> <1510649563-22975-4-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1510649563-22975-4-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Benjamin Gaignard , robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk, mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, tglx@linutronix.de, ludovic.barre@st.com, julien.thierry@arm.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com, arnd@arndb.de Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 14/11/2017 09:52, Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > The CPU is a CortexM4 @ 200MHZ and the clocks driving > the timers are at 90MHZ with a min delta at 1 you could > have an interrupt each 0.01 ms which is really to much. > By increase it to 0x60 it give more time (around 1 ms) > to CPU to handle the interrupt. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard > --- > drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32.c | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32.c > index fc61fd1..ae41a19 100644 > --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32.c > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-stm32.c > @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ > > #define TIM_EGR_UG BIT(0) > > +#define MIN_DELTA 0x60 Explain why 0x60 is a good value. > static int stm32_clock_event_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *evt) > { > struct timer_of *to = to_timer_of(evt); > @@ -129,7 +131,7 @@ static int __init stm32_clockevent_init(struct device_node *node) > writel_relaxed(0, timer_of_base(to) + TIM_SR); > > clockevents_config_and_register(&to->clkevt, > - timer_of_period(to), 0x1, max_delta); > + timer_of_period(to), MIN_DELTA, max_delta); > > pr_info("%pOF: STM32 clockevent driver initialized (%d bits)\n", > node, bits); > -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog