From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>,
Linux ARM Kernel ML <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Subject: Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:18:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FDBEAC.2050606@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130121211218.GX23505@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On 01/21/2013 01:12 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:00:15PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
>> So if you can not get actual timer ticks any faster then 200 HZ on that
>> hardware, setting HZ higher could cause some jiffies related timer
>> trouble
> Err, no John. It's the other way around - especially on some platforms
> which are incapable of being converted to the clock source support.
>
> EBSA110 has _one_ counter. It counts down at a certain rate, and when
> it rolls over from 0 to FFFF, it produces an interrupt and continues
> counting down from FFFF.
>
> To produce anything close to a reasonable regular tick rate from that,
> the only way to do it is - with interrupts disabled - read the current
> value to find out how far the timer has rolled over, and set it so that
> the next event will expire as close as possible to the desired HZ rate.
>
> So, none of the clcokevent stuff can be used; and we rely _purely_ on
> counting interrupts in jiffy based increments to provide any reference
> of time.
> Moreover, because the counter is only 16-bit, and it's clocked from
> something around 7MHz, well, maths will tell you why 200Hz had to be
> chosen rather than 100Hz.
Ah, so the counter can't do anything *lower* then ~107HZ, right? (7MHZ/2^16)
So we used to have the ACTHZ code to handle error from the HZ rate
requested and the HZ rate possible given the underlying hardware. That's
been moved to the register_refined_jiffies(), but do you have a sense if
there a reason it couldn't be used? I don't quite recall the bounds at
this second, so ~7% error might very well be too large.
So yes, I suspect these sorts of platforms, where there are no modern
clocksource/clockevent driver, as well as further constraints (like
specific HZ) are likely not good candidates for a multi-arch build.
thanks
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-21 20:01 One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 20:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 21:00 ` John Stultz
2013-01-21 21:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 22:18 ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-01-21 22:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 8:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 22:20 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:23 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 23:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 0:09 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22 0:26 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 21:14 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:36 ` John Stultz
2013-01-21 22:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 22:54 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 23:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:30 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22 0:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 0:38 ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 0:51 ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 1:06 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22 1:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 1:56 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-22 1:31 ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 2:10 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-31 21:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-01-21 21:02 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 22:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-21 22:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:01 ` Matt Sealey
2013-01-21 21:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-21 23:23 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-01-22 6:23 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-22 9:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-22 10:14 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-22 14:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-22 15:05 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-28 6:08 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 0:01 ` John Stultz
2013-01-29 6:43 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-01-29 10:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-29 18:43 ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 17:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-22 18:59 ` John Stultz
2013-01-22 21:52 ` Tony Lindgren
2013-01-23 5:18 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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