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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 09:36:19 -0700
From: William McVicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
To: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
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Hosung Kim <hosung0.kim@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] clocksource/drivers/exynos_mct: Set local timer
interrupts as percpu
On 03/31/2025, John Stultz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM 'Will McVicker' via kernel-team
> <kernel-team@...roid.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Hosung Kim <hosung0.kim@...sung.com>
> >
> > The MCT local timers can be used as a per-cpu event timer. To prevent
>
> Can be used, or are used? If it's an option, is this change important
> in both cases?
>
> > the timer interrupts from migrating to other CPUs, set the flag
> > IRQF_PERCPU.
>
> Might be work expanding this a bit to clarify why the interrupts
> migrating to other cpus is undesired.
Let me dig into this further to figure out if the IP has a limitation where the
interrupts need to be handled by the CPU the timer was triggered on or if this
is just an optimization.
Any chance you know this @Youngmin?
Thanks,
Will
>
> > Signed-off-by: Hosung Kim <hosung0.kim@...sung.com>
> > [Original commit from https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/gs/+/03267fad19f093bac979ca78309483e9eb3a8d16]
> > Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
>
> thanks!
> -john
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