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

From: Noam Camus
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 02:57:53 EST


> From: Daniel Lezcano [mailto:daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx]
> 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

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