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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 07/20] env: Add support for callbacks to environment vars
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:06:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EFC7F7.9020906@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355285797-27051-8-git-send-email-joe.hershberger@ni.com>

Hi Joe,

On 12/12/2012 05:16 AM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> Add support for per-variable callbacks to the "hashtable" functions.

I just noticed using latest master branch that booting on a NOR
flash based board (sequoia, PPC440EPx based) a quite big delay
(1..2 seconds) is added upon env_relocate() (real delay happens
in himport_r()). Digging a bit deeper results in this patch
(170ab11 [env: Add support for callbacks to environment vars])
started this regression:

[ 36.208317] <  0.004802> U-Boot 2013.01-rc1-00385-g170ab11 (Jan 11 2013 - 08:58:59)
[ 36.209012] <  0.000695> 
[ 36.215956] <  0.006944> CPU:   AMCC PowerPC 440EPx Rev. A at 528 MHz (PLB=132 OPB=66 EBC=66 PCI=33 MHz)
[ 36.218730] <  0.002774>        Security/Kasumi support
[ 36.224290] <  0.005560>        Bootstrap Option H - Boot ROM Location I2C (Addr 0x52)
[ 36.229843] <  0.005553>        Internal PCI arbiter enabled, PCI async ext clock used
[ 36.232704] <  0.002861>        32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache
[ 36.240869] <  0.008165> Board: Sequoia - AMCC PPC440EPx Evaluation Board, Rev. F, PCI-Async=33 MHz
[ 36.242261] <  0.001392> I2C:   ready
[ 36.648652] <  0.406391> DRAM:  256 MiB
[ 36.811658] <  0.163006> Flash: 64 MiB
[ 36.813331] <  0.001673> NAND:  32 MiB

himport_r()

[ 37.808800] <  0.995469> PCI:   Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
[ 37.816780] <  0.007980> USB:   Host(int phy) Device(ext phy)
[ 37.820094] <  0.003314> Net:   ppc_4xx_eth0, ppc_4xx_eth1

Here you see the delay in himport_r() is approx 1 second.

And with patch (2598090 [env: Add environment variable flags]) this
delay even grows to 2 seconds:

[  3.096149] <  0.004800> U-Boot 2013.01-rc1-00392-g2598090 (Jan 11 2013 - 08:55:45)
[  3.096853] <  0.000704> 
[  3.103805] <  0.006952> CPU:   AMCC PowerPC 440EPx Rev. A at 528 MHz (PLB=132 OPB=66 EBC=66 PCI=33 MHz)
[  3.106575] <  0.002770>        Security/Kasumi support
[  3.112135] <  0.005560>        Bootstrap Option H - Boot ROM Location I2C (Addr 0x52)
[  3.117683] <  0.005548>        Internal PCI arbiter enabled, PCI async ext clock used
[  3.120548] <  0.002865>        32 kB I-Cache 32 kB D-Cache
[  3.128716] <  0.008168> Board: Sequoia - AMCC PPC440EPx Evaluation Board, Rev. F, PCI-Async=33 MHz
[  3.130099] <  0.001383> I2C:   ready
[  3.536470] <  0.406371> DRAM:  256 MiB
[  3.699894] <  0.163424> Flash: 64 MiB
[  3.701553] <  0.001659> NAND:  32 MiB

himport_r()

[  5.690365] <  1.988812> PCI:   Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
[  5.698395] <  0.008030> USB:   Host(int phy) Device(ext phy)
[  5.701709] <  0.003314> Net:   ppc_4xx_eth0, ppc_4xx_eth1


Joe, I didn't dig deeper into these functions and patches. Do you
have an idea why these patches introduce this delay? Can you
reproduce this on one of your boards? Has anybody else noticed
such issues?

Thanks,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-11  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  2:07 [U-Boot] Read-only env variables Joe Hershberger
2010-05-06 21:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-10  6:30   ` Joe Hershberger
2010-05-10  6:56     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-10 19:16       ` Joe Hershberger
2010-05-10 20:43         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-10 21:33           ` Joe Hershberger
2010-05-11 20:19             ` Craig Millen
2010-05-11 22:03               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-11 22:52                 ` Joe Hershberger
2010-05-12  9:34                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-12 23:46                     ` Joe Hershberger
2010-06-22 21:18                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-06-22 21:49                         ` Joe Hershberger
2010-06-22 22:29                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-08-17 20:49                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/12] Add environment type checking and access control Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/12] tools/env: Use a board-specific default env Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:17                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-23 15:45                                   ` Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/12] tools/env: Remove unneeded complexity Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:30                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/12] tools/env: Don't call env_init() in fw_getenv() Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/12] tools/env: Reduce the impact on real-time processes Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:30                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-23 16:26                                   ` Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23 20:31                                     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/12] tools/env: Serialize calls to fw_*env Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:33                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-03  1:12                                   ` Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/12] env: Make the "silent" env var take effect immediately Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:35                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/12] env: Update serial baudrate in env_relocate() Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/12] env: Check for NULL pointer in envmatch() Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 23:51                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/12] env: Clarify the cases for env set Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/12] env: acl: Add environment variable access control list Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:43                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-09-13 20:13                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-09-14  2:24                                   ` Joe Hershberger
2012-09-14 18:42                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-01 16:39                                       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/18] Add environment call-back and flags capability Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 01/18] Make linux kernel string funcs available to tools Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 02/18] env: Refactor do_apply to a flag Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 03/18] env: Consolidate common code in hsearch_r() Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 04/18] env: Refactor apply into change_ok Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 05/18] env: Use getenv_yesno() more generally Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 06/18] env: Hide '.' variables in env print by default Joe Hershberger
2012-11-02 10:44                                           ` Luka Perkov
2012-11-02 22:23                                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 07/18] env: Add support for callbacks to environment vars Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 08/18] env: Add a command to view callbacks Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 09/18] env: Add a bootfile env handler Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 10/18] env: Add a baudrate " Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 11/18] env: Add a loadaddr " Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 12/18] env: Add a console " Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 13/18] env: Add a silent " Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 14/18] env: Add environment variable flags Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 15/18] tools/env: Add environment variable flags support Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 16/18] env: Add a command to display details about env flags Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 17/18] env: Add support for access control to .flags Joe Hershberger
2012-11-01 16:39                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 18/18] env: Handle write-once ethaddr and serial# generically Joe Hershberger
2012-11-02 22:40                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/18] Add environment call-back and flags capability Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-05  0:15                                           ` Joe Hershberger
2012-12-01 19:44                                           ` Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/20] " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 01/20] Make linux kernel string funcs available to tools Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 02/20] env: Refactor do_apply to a flag Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 03/20] env: Consolidate common code in hsearch_r() Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 04/20] env: Refactor apply into change_ok Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 05/20] env: Use getenv_yesno() more generally Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 06/20] env: Hide '.' variables in env print by default Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 07/20] env: Add support for callbacks to environment vars Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  2:34                                             ` Graeme Russ
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 08/20] env: Add a command to view callbacks Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 09/20] env: Add a bootfile env handler Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 10/20] env: Add a baudrate " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 11/20] env: Add a loadaddr " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 12/20] env: Add a console " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 13/20] env: Add a silent " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 14/20] env: Add environment variable flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 15/20] tools/env: Add environment variable flags support Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 16/20] env: Add a command to display details about env flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 17/20] env: Add support for access control to .flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 18/20] env: Add setenv force support Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 19/20] env: Implement the env delete command Joe Hershberger
2012-12-05  1:52                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 20/20] env: Handle write-once ethaddr and serial# generically Joe Hershberger
2012-12-11 16:51                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/20] Add environment call-back and flags capability Tom Rini
2012-12-12  4:16                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 01/20] Make linux kernel string funcs available to tools Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 02/20] env: Refactor do_apply to a flag Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 03/20] env: Consolidate common code in hsearch_r() Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 04/20] env: Refactor apply into change_ok Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 05/20] env: Use getenv_yesno() more generally Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 06/20] env: Hide '.' variables in env print by default Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 07/20] env: Add support for callbacks to environment vars Joe Hershberger
2013-01-11  8:06                                               ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2013-01-14 23:23                                                 ` Joe Hershberger
2013-01-15  6:51                                                   ` Stefan Roese
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 08/20] env: Add a command to view callbacks Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 09/20] env: Add a bootfile env handler Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 10/20] env: Add a baudrate " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 11/20] env: Add a loadaddr " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 12/20] env: Add a console " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 13/20] env: Add a silent " Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 14/20] env: Add environment variable flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 15/20] tools/env: Add environment variable flags support Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 16/20] env: Add a command to display details about env flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 17/20] env: Add support for access control to .flags Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 18/20] env: Add setenv force support Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 19/20] env: Implement the env delete command Joe Hershberger
2012-12-12  4:16                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 20/20] env: Handle write-once ethaddr and serial# generically Joe Hershberger
2012-12-14 16:05                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v5 0/20] Add environment call-back and flags capability Tom Rini
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/12] env: acl: Add support for access control to env ACL Joe Hershberger
2012-08-17 20:49                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/12] env: cosmetic: Consilidate the default env definition Joe Hershberger
2012-08-23  3:44                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-10-03 19:38                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] Cleanup fw_*env and a few common env Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 19:38                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/5] tools/env: Use a board-specific default env Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 19:38                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/5] tools/env: Remove unneeded complexity Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 19:38                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/5] tools/env: Don't call env_init() in fw_getenv() Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 19:38                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/5] tools/env: Serialize calls to fw_*env Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 23:24                                   ` uboot at lukaperkov.net
2012-10-04 18:31                                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] tools: Add a README note about fw_printenv lock file Joe Hershberger
2012-10-03 19:38                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/5] env: Check for NULL pointer in envmatch() Joe Hershberger
2012-10-09 17:13                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] Cleanup fw_*env and a few common env Tom Rini

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