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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 1.7 v2 2/2] PPC: BookE: Make FIT/WDT timers at bes
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 1.7 v2 2/2] PPC: BookE: Make FIT/WDT timers at best millisecond grained |
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Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:08:41 +0100 |
On 02.12.2013, at 17:50, Tom Musta <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 3:46 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> The default granularity for the FIT timer on 440 is on every 0x1000th
>> transition of TB from 0 to 1. Translated that means 48828 times a second.
>>
>> Since interrupts are quite expensive for 440 and we don't really care
>> about the accuracy of the FIT to that significance, let's force FIT and
>> WDT to at best millisecond granularity.
>>
>> This basically restores behavior as it was in QEMU 1.6, where timers
>> could only deal with millisecond granularities at all.
>>
>> This patch greatly improves performance with the 440 target and restores
>> roughly the same performance level that QEMU 1.6 had for me.
>>
>
> @Reviewed-by: Tom Musta <address@hidden>
>
> Alexander:
>
> Is the problem the default? If so, would it be better to change the default?
> (for example, set the default TCR_FP for the 440 to 0b10). Of course, if your
> software is setting this back to 0b00, you will still have a problem.
Well, we set the TCR_FP value to what hardware defines it to be in on reset :).
> The downside to your approach is that it eliminates the possibility for fine
> grained timer interrupts for all Book E implementations and all kernels and/or
> hypervisors. I am not aware of any such system so my comment is purely
> theoretical.
True. But then again you'll be too slow with all that TCG jumping in to really
handle these find grained timing events.
Alex