From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam@nurfuerspam.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:42:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140707194223.GA29819@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lpeseg$lip$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Manuel Reimer wrote:
> On 07/07/2014 09:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >Are you sure this did not just happen when you booted the new kernel
> >for the first time ? I have seen similar behavior with some distributions.
>
> I did some more tries and found out that I had disabled some of my
> patches until I reached 3.15.4 (latest version) where I decided to
> do needed modifications to get my patches back in.
>
> I tracked the problem down to the following patch:
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts
> b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts
> index d107c4a..993da2e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx23-olinuxino.dts
> @@ -64,7 +64,14 @@
> compatible = "fsl,imx23-spi";
> pinctrl-names = "default";
> pinctrl-0 = <&spi2_pins_a>;
> + clock-frequency = <1000000>;
If I understand the code correctly, that means you reduce the access speed
for SPI flashes from 160 MHz down to 1 MHz.
If so, and if your system loads anything from a SPI flash, I would not be too
surprised that your system is now a bit on the slow side.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-07 18:21 3.15.4 runs *significantly* slower than 3.15.3 on iMX233 CPU Manuel Reimer
2014-07-07 19:14 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-07-07 19:29 ` Manuel Reimer
2014-07-07 19:42 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-07-07 19:55 ` Manuel Reimer
2014-07-07 20:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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