linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 3/9] genirq/timings: Optimize the period detection speed

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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 13:16:09 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH V2 3/9] genirq/timings: Optimize the period detection speed

If we have a minimal period and if there is a period which is a
multiple of it but lesser than the max period then it will be detected
before and the minimal period will be never reached.

 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
 <-----> <-----> <----->
 <-> <-> <-> <-> <-> <->

In our case, the minimum period is 2 and the maximum period is 5. That
means all repeating pattern of 2 will be detected as repeating pattern
of 4, it is pointless to go up to 2 when searching for the period as it
will always fail.

Remove one loop iteration by increasing the minimal period to 3.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
---
 kernel/irq/timings.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/timings.c b/kernel/irq/timings.c
index 250bb00ccd85..06bde5253a7d 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/timings.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/timings.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ void irq_timings_disable(void)
 #define EMA_ALPHA_VAL		64
 #define EMA_ALPHA_SHIFT		7

-#define PREDICTION_PERIOD_MIN	2
+#define PREDICTION_PERIOD_MIN	3
 #define PREDICTION_PERIOD_MAX	5
 #define PREDICTION_FACTOR	4
 #define PREDICTION_MAX		10 /* 2 ^ PREDICTION_MAX useconds */
-- 
2.17.1