Re: [RFC v4 10/22] arch/tile/kernel/time: set ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks

[Chris Metcalf]

On 08/22/2016 07:33 PM, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> With the yet to come introduction of NTP correction awareness to the
> clockevent core, drivers should report their valid ranges in units of
> cycles to the latter.
>
> Currently, the tile's timer clockevent device is initialized as follows:
>
>   evt->max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(MAX_TICK, evt);
>
> and
>
>   .min_delta_ns = 1000,
>
> The first one translates to a ->max_delta_ticks value of MAX_TICK.
> For the latter, note that the clockevent core will superimpose a
> minimum of 1us by itself -- setting ->min_delta_ticks to 1 is safe here.
>
> Initialize ->min_delta_ticks and ->max_delta_ticks with these values.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/tile/kernel/time.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Thanks.  Taken into the tile tree.
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