Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:41:25 +0200 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 0/8] clocksource: sunxi: Timer fixes and cleanup |
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Hi Hans,
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:13:56PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >Siarhei however notes that even higher-end SoCs like the exynos5 have > >similar performances with that regard. So I'm not sure we can do > >something about it, except what is suggested in the above mail, which > >looks rather unsafe. > > > >Anyway, like you said, we have no easy other solution, and we lacked > >such support until now. > > > >So why not merge this code for now, and try to optimise it later if we > >find it's needed. > > That is fine with me, I just wanted to share that this has shown as > a bottleneck in some benchmarks in case anyone has a clever idea to > fix it ...
And you were right, since I wasn't aware of such discussion.
Thanks! Maxime
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