Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove any correlation between IPC and BogoMips value

2013-05-13 Thread Christopher Covington
Hi Will, On 05/08/2013 05:06 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > Hello Christopher, > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:48:26PM +0100, Christopher Covington wrote: >> On 05/07/2013 05:08 AM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> That seems like a lot of effort in order to preserve something that isn't >>> even meaningful. We m

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove any correlation between IPC and BogoMips value

2013-05-08 Thread Will Deacon
Hello Christopher, On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 04:48:26PM +0100, Christopher Covington wrote: > On 05/07/2013 05:08 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > That seems like a lot of effort in order to preserve something that isn't > > even meaningful. We might be better just zeroing the value, but then we'll > > in

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove any correlation between IPC and BogoMips value

2013-05-07 Thread Christopher Covington
On 05/07/2013 05:08 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:01:23PM +0100, Christopher Covington wrote: >> Hi Will, >> >> On 05/03/2013 01:35 PM, Will Deacon wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> This small patch set may look a little over a month late, but there is a >>> serious reason for postin

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove any correlation between IPC and BogoMips value

2013-05-07 Thread Will Deacon
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:01:23PM +0100, Christopher Covington wrote: > Hi Will, > > On 05/03/2013 01:35 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This small patch set may look a little over a month late, but there is a > > serious reason for posting it. > > > > When I moved the ARM delay loop

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove any correlation between IPC and BogoMips value

2013-05-06 Thread Christopher Covington
Hi Will, On 05/03/2013 01:35 PM, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi all, > > This small patch set may look a little over a month late, but there is a > serious reason for posting it. > > When I moved the ARM delay loop over to using the architected timers > rather than the CPU spinning loop (which has all