From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Billy Tsai <billy_tsai@aspeedtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [v5 2/2] pwm: Add Aspeed ast2600 PWM support
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 08:35:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210517063500.toxlb2wbtbqpczwl@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C451B628-C0CC-47E9-84EF-42DB8518FE1E@aspeedtech.com>
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On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 06:23:06AM +0000, Billy Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
> On 2021/5/17, 2:06 PM,Uwe Kleine-Königwrote:
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:53:44AM +0000, Billy Tsai wrote:
> > > On 2021/5/15, 11:57 PM,Uwe Kleine-Königwrote:
> > >
> > > > > + div_h = DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(div_h,
> > > > > + (FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1));
> > > > > + div_h = DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(div_h, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> > >
> > > > As a division is an expensive operation you can better first multiply
> > > > NSEC_PER_SEC and FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1 and divide by
> > > > the result.
> > >
> > > When I multiply NSEC_PER_SEC and FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1 the result will overflow
> > > for 32-bits and the divisor type of do_div is 32-bits so I need to do div twice to avoid the issue.
> > > Can you give me some suggests?
>
> > Hmm, you're right. There doesn't seem to be a div64_64, I thought there
> > was one. Anyhow, while looking at the various divide functions I saw
> > that dividing by a constant shouldn't be that expensive, so I think the
> > sane way is to keep the two divisions and add a comment describing the
> > problem.
> According to our fixed value, I think that I can use bit shift to reduce one divide function:
>
> rate = clk_get_rate(priv->clk);
> /* Get the smallest value for div_h */
> div_h = rate * state->period;
> div_h >>= (__fls(PWM_ASPEED_FIXED_PERIOD + 1) +
> __fls(FIELD_MAX(PWM_ASPEED_CTRL_CLK_DIV_L) + 1));
> div_h = DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL(div_h, NSEC_PER_SEC);
Did you check how this is compiled to code? I'd expect that it doesn't
result in better code than writing it as a division. Given that a
division is easier to understand for a human reader, I'd stick to that.
Best regards
Uwe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-14 2:48 [v5 0/2] Support pwm driver for aspeed ast26xx Billy Tsai
2021-05-14 2:48 ` [v5 1/2] dt-bindings: Add bindings for aspeed pwm-tach Billy Tsai
2021-05-14 2:48 ` [v5 2/2] pwm: Add Aspeed ast2600 PWM support Billy Tsai
2021-05-15 15:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-05-17 2:53 ` Billy Tsai
2021-05-17 6:06 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2021-05-17 6:23 ` Billy Tsai
2021-05-17 6:35 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2021-05-17 7:12 ` Billy Tsai
2021-05-17 17:10 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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