On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:46:56PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 11:18 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:42:12PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:58 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote:
> > > > On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Benjamin H
On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 11:18 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:42:12PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:58 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote:
> > > On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:13 -0500, Paul Clarke
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 01:42:12PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:58 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote:
> > On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:13 -0500, Paul Clarke wrote:
> > >> This patch short-circuits the reset of the decrement
On Mon, 2014-11-10 at 14:58 -0600, Paul Clarke wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:13 -0500, Paul Clarke wrote:
> >> This patch short-circuits the reset of the decrementer, exiting after
> >> the decrementer reset, but before the housekeeping
On 11/10/2014 04:08 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:13 -0500, Paul Clarke wrote:
The POWER ISA defines an always-running decrementer which can be used
to schedule interrupts after a certain time interval has elapsed.
The decrementer counts down at the same frequency as
On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:13 -0500, Paul Clarke wrote:
> The POWER ISA defines an always-running decrementer which can be used
> to schedule interrupts after a certain time interval has elapsed.
> The decrementer counts down at the same frequency as the Time Base,
> which is 512 MHz. The maximum va
On 10/08/2014 12:37 AM, Heinz Wrobel wrote:
what if your tb wraps during the test?
Per the Power ISA, Time Base is 64 bits, monotonically increasing, and
is writable only in hypervisor state. To my understanding, it is set to
zero at boot (although this is not prescribed).
Also, as noted
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: mitigate impact of decrementer reset
>
> The POWER ISA defines an always-running decrementer which can be used to
> schedule interrupts after a certain time interval has elapsed.
> The decrementer counts down at the same frequency as the Time Base, which
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The POWER ISA defines an always-running decrementer which can be used
to schedule interrupts after a certain time interval has elapsed.
The decrementer counts down at the same frequency as the Time Base,
which is 512 MHz. The maximum value of the decrementer is 0x7fff.
This works out to a max