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From: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
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 17:15:02 +1100 (AEDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1811131700010.366@nippy.intranet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b824e485-796c-cbb6-9e50-504b03accd5d@gmail.com>

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> 
> > (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.

The initcall debug output shows the same precision as my earlier tests 
with userland. The VIA timer only gets updated when QEMU wants to update 
it, which seems to be about every 9765 us. Hence, using the 'jiffies' 
clocksource would be effectively no regression for a virtual Mac.

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-13  6:14 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
2018-11-13  6:15             ` Finn Thain [this message]
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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