[PATCH v4 0/2] clocksource/drivers/dw_apb_timer: improve performance a bit

[Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>]

These two patches try to improve the dw_apb_timer clocksource/clockevent
performance.

These patches depend on the apbt_readl return value fix patch:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-November/388250.html

since v3:
 - fix commit msg: we measured 4096 rounds of function call. So add this
   information into commit msg to avoid confusion.

since v2:
 - only use relaxed version in critical path
 - inline apbt_readl/apbt_writel
 - add some performance numbers

since v1:
 - correct the wrong sentence in commit msg about writel performance on
   CA9 with outer L2 cache. Thank Arnd for pointing out this in another
   thread.


Jisheng Zhang (2):
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb_timer: Inline apbt_readl and apbt_writel
  clocksource/drivers/dw_apb_timer: Use {readl|writel}_relaxed in
    critical path

 drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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