Re: [RFC] Improving udelay/ndelay on platforms where that is possible

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Tue Oct 31 2017 - 20:23:36 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So I'm very much open to udelay improvements, and if somebody sends
> patches for particular platforms to do particularly well on that
> platform, I think we should merge them. But ...

If I'm reading this all correctly, this sounds like you'd be willing
to merge <https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9429841/>. This makes
udelay() guaranteed not to underrun on arm32 platforms.

-Doug