On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 01:30:29PM +0000, Visa Hankala wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 09:54:02AM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 02:03:31PM +0000, Visa Hankala wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 02:52:37AM -0500, Scott Cheloha wrote:
> > > > One thing I'm still uncertain about is how glxclk fits into the
> > > > loongson picture.  It's an interrupt clock that runs hardclock() and
> > > > statclock(), but the code doesn't do any logical masking, so I don't
> > > > know whether or not I need to adjust anything in that code or account
> > > > for it at all.  If there's no logical masking there's no deferral, so
> > > > it would never call need to call md_triggerclock() from splx(9).
> > > 
> > > I think the masking of glxclk interrupts are handled by the ISA
> > > interrupt code.
> > 
> > Do those machines not have Coprocessor 0?  If they do, why would you
> > prefer glxclk over CP0?
> > 
> > > The patch misses md_triggerclock definition in mips64_machdep.c.
> > 
> > Whoops, forgot that file.  Fuller patch below.
> > 
> > > I have put this to the test on the mips64 ports builder machines.
> 
> The machines completed a build with this patch without problems.
> I tested with the debug counters removed from cp0_trigger_int5().
> 
> OK visa@

Thank you for testing!

There was a loongson portion to this patch.  Is this OK on loongson or
just octeon?

Also, what did the debug counters look like when you yanked them?  If
cp0_raise_miss was non-zero I will double the initial offset to 32
cycles.

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