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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 19:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
cc:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	David Riley <davidriley@...omium.org>,
	"olof@...om.net" <olof@...om.net>,
	Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...omium.org>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Don't ever downscale loops_per_jiffy in SMP
 systems#

On Tue, 13 May 2014, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2014, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 
> > On 05/13/2014 03:50 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
> > ...
> > > ...but then I found the true problem shows up when we transition
> > > between very low frequencies on exynos, like between 200MHz and
> > > 300MHz.  While transitioning between frequencies the system
> > > temporarily bumps over to the "switcher" PLL running at 800MHz while
> > > waiting for the main PLL to stabilize.  No CPUFREQ notification is
> > > sent for that.  That means there's a period of time when we're running
> > > at 800MHz but loops_per_jiffy is calibrated at between 200MHz and
> > > 300MHz.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm welcome to any suggestions for how to address this.  It sorta
> > > feels like it would be a common thing to have a temporary PLL during
> > > the transition, ...
> > 
> > We definitely do that on Tegra for some cpufreq transitions.
> 
> Ouch...  If this is a common strategy to use a third frequency during a 
> transition phase, especially if that frequency is way off (800MHz vs 
> 200-300MHz) then it is something the cpufreq layer must capture and 
> advertise.

Of course if only the loops_per_jiffy scaling does care about frequency 
changes these days, and if in those cases udelay() can instead be moved 
to a timer source on those hick-up prone platforms, then all this is 
fairly theoretical and may not be worth pursuing.


Nicolas
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