linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v1 02/20] clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver

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Date:	Mon, 2 Nov 2015 07:57:43 +0000
From:	Noam Camus <noamc@...hip.com>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	"linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tal Zilcer <talz@...hip.com>, Gil Fruchter <gilf@...hip.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 02/20] clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver

> From: Daniel Lezcano [mailto:daniel.lezcano@...aro.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 10:44 PM

> Please add an entry in the clocksource's Kconfig.

> eg:
OK

> Are you sure all the headers are needed ?
Thanks, will revise this part.

> Why do you need to disable the interrupt here ?
Thanks, seem like left over from past issue, I will remove.


> May be you can consider using only the 32bits. Sometimes it is faster than using 64bits arithmetic and reading the register three times.

> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/20/431
Our device can reach 1000MHz.
That means that the 32-bit half of the counter rolls over every ~4 seconds.
I am not sure optimization is justified.

-Noam