From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] MIPS: Add a high resolution sched_clock() via cnt32_to_63().
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:36:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091123103650.GA30666@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39b95d02b37cd75d275b231c31abb00aefda9078.1258972025.git.wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
* Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
>
> (This v5 revision incorporates with the feedbacks from Ingo.)
>
> This patch adds a cnt32_to_63() and MIPS c0 count based sched_clock(),
> which provides high resolution. and also, one new kernel option
> (HR_SCHED_CLOCK) is added to enable/disable this sched_clock().
>
> Without it, the Ftrace for MIPS will give useless timestamp information.
>
> Because cnt32_to_63() needs to be called at least once per half period
> to work properly, Differ from the old version, this v2 revision set up a
> kernel timer to ensure the requirement of some MIPSs which have short c0
> count period.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 18 ++++++++++++
> arch/mips/include/asm/time.h | 15 ++++++++++
> arch/mips/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k-hres.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c | 2 +
> 5 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k-hres.c
Looks good!
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 10:28 [PATCH v5] MIPS: Add a high resolution sched_clock() via cnt32_to_63() Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-23 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-23 13:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-23 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-26 18:15 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-27 1:07 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-27 3:05 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-27 4:45 ` David Daney
2009-11-27 8:35 ` Wu Zhangjin
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