From: Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]> Use the relaxed version to improve performance. we measured time of 4096 rounds of gt_compare_set() spent on Marvell BG2Q:
before the patch: 3690648ns on average after the patch: 1083023ns on average improved by 70%! Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]> --- drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c index a2cb6fa..f99be6b 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c @@ -99,17 +99,17 @@ static void gt_compare_set(unsigned long delta, int periodic) counter += delta; ctrl = GT_CONTROL_TIMER_ENABLE; - writel(ctrl, gt_base + GT_CONTROL); - writel(lower_32_bits(counter), gt_base + GT_COMP0); - writel(upper_32_bits(counter), gt_base + GT_COMP1); + writel_relaxed(ctrl, gt_base + GT_CONTROL); + writel_relaxed(lower_32_bits(counter), gt_base + GT_COMP0); + writel_relaxed(upper_32_bits(counter), gt_base + GT_COMP1); if (periodic) { - writel(delta, gt_base + GT_AUTO_INC); + writel_relaxed(delta, gt_base + GT_AUTO_INC); ctrl |= GT_CONTROL_AUTO_INC; } ctrl |= GT_CONTROL_COMP_ENABLE | GT_CONTROL_IRQ_ENABLE; - writel(ctrl, gt_base + GT_CONTROL); + writel_relaxed(ctrl, gt_base + GT_CONTROL); } static int gt_clockevent_shutdown(struct clock_event_device *evt) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
