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From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Stephen N Chivers <schivers@csc.com.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>,
	Joshua Thompson <funaho@jurai.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 06/13] m68k: Drop ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:50:37 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b824e485-796c-cbb6-9e50-504b03accd5d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1811131413210.362@nippy.intranet>

Hi Finn,

Am 13.11.2018 um 16:14 schrieb Finn Thain:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
>> Hi Finn,
>>
>> Am 12.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Finn Thain:
>>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Finn,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your patch!
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:46 AM Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> The functions that implement arch_gettimeoffset are re-used by
>>>>> new clocksource drivers in subsequent patches.
>>>>
>>>> Disabling this first affects functionality during bisection, right?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It means that all platforms have to use the 'jiffies' clocksource.
>>
>> So all that happens is timer granularity drops to 10ms, then gets restored by
>> the later patches?
>>
>
> Yes, that was the plan, but I can't confirm that it worked out as I don't
> have any physical 68k hardware in front of me right now. If you can
> confirm this on your Atari Falcon, that would be great.

Will do.

> (It appears that a QEMU-emulated Mac does not benefit from having a
> clocksource that's more accurate than the 'jiffies' clocksource, in spite
> of "clocksource: Switched to clocksource via1".)

With the current code, kernel log timestamps have 10 ms resolution on 
Atari. Time resolution of times reported by initcall_debug is roughly 40 
us. I'd expect that changes with falling back to jiffies only. Might be 
worth a try on QEMU Mac.

Cheers,

	Michael

> The latest patches can be found at
> https://github.com/fthain/linux/commits/mac68k-queue/
>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-12  4:12 [RFC PATCH 00/13] m68k: Drop arch_gettimeoffset and adopt clocksource API Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] m68k: atari: Convert to " Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] m68k: mac: Clean up unused timer definitions Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] m68k: hp300: Convert to clocksource API Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] m68k: mac: " Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] arm: Fix mutual exclusion in arch_gettimeoffset Finn Thain
2018-11-12  8:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-13  3:39     ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13  9:20       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-13 21:55         ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13 23:43           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-14  1:35             ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-14  7:58               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-15  1:34                 ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-14  3:17             ` Finn Thain
2018-11-14 14:16               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-14 14:58                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-14 18:11                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-15  4:12                 ` Finn Thain
2018-11-16 17:47                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-16 22:49                     ` Finn Thain
2018-11-17  3:00                       ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-14 12:05   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] m68k: " Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] m68k: amiga: Convert to clocksource API Finn Thain
2018-11-12  9:02   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-12  9:21     ` Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] m68k: bvme6000: " Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] m68k: Drop ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET Finn Thain
2018-11-12  9:00   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-12  9:06     ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13  2:29       ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-13  3:14         ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13  4:50           ` Michael Schmitz [this message]
2018-11-13  6:15             ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13  8:24               ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-13 22:11                 ` Finn Thain
2018-11-14  1:08                   ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-14  2:58                     ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-14 23:54                       ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-15  4:37                         ` Finn Thain
2018-11-15  6:35                         ` Michael Schmitz
2018-11-16  0:04                           ` Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] m68k: mvme16x: Convert to clocksource API Finn Thain
2018-11-12 18:37   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-13  0:11     ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13 22:04       ` Finn Thain
2018-11-13 22:10         ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] m68k: mvme16x: Convert to clocksource APIy Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-13 22:33           ` Finn Thain
2018-11-18 17:12             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] m68k: mac: Fix VIA timer counter accesses Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] m68k: mvme147: Convert to clocksource API Finn Thain
2018-11-12  4:12 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] m68k: apollo, q40, sun3, sun3x: Remove arch_gettimeoffset implementations Finn Thain

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