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From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linux ARM Kernel ML <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:48:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FF7295.2000300@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130122215257.GU22517@atomide.com>

On Wednesday 23 January 2013 03:22 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> [130122 11:02]:
>>
>> Correct, with HRT, we actually trigger the HZ-frequency timer tick
>> from an hrtimer (which expires based on the system time driven by
>> the clocksource). Thus even if there is a theoretical error between
>> the ideal HZ and what the hardware can do, that error will not
>> propagate forward.
>
> If there's no cumulative error, sounds like the way to go is to select
> HRT for ARM multiplatform builds and set the HZ to 100 then.
>
HIGH_RES_TIMERS are always enabled by default for OMAP as well as
multi-platform build.

Regards,
Santosh

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  5:17 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
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 [this message]

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