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author | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-02-28 13:21:52 -0500 |
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committer | Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> | 2011-03-01 16:20:04 -0500 |
commit | 13371731487896a6ef158b1cd74297f40a3da4bb (patch) | |
tree | af09fca3fd8811340b373faaddcdb528f8a07669 /arch/tile/kernel/time.c | |
parent | 04f7a3f12e10032ee3d44df1a509dbf5b2001fce (diff) |
arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better
The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.
By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/time.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/tile/kernel/time.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c index f2e156e44692..49a605be94c5 100644 --- a/arch/tile/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/tile/kernel/time.c @@ -224,3 +224,13 @@ int setup_profiling_timer(unsigned int multiplier) { return -EINVAL; } + +/* + * Use the tile timer to convert nsecs to core clock cycles, relying + * on it having the same frequency as SPR_CYCLE. + */ +cycles_t ns2cycles(unsigned long nsecs) +{ + struct clock_event_device *dev = &__get_cpu_var(tile_timer); + return ((u64)nsecs * dev->mult) >> dev->shift; +} |