[PATCH v2 1/3] cpufreq: pmac64: speed up frequency switch

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Sun Sep 1 03:23:50 EST 2013


Some functions on switch path use msleep() which is inaccurate, and
depends on HZ. With HZ=100 msleep(1) takes actually over ten times longer.
Using usleep_range() we get more accurate sleeps.

I measured the "pfunc_slewing_done" polling to take 300us at max (on
2.3GHz dual-processor Xserve G5), so using 500us sleep there should
be fine.

With the patch, g5_switch_freq() duration drops from ~50ms to ~10ms on
Xserve with HZ=100.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c
index 7ba4234..674807d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/pmac64-cpufreq.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static void g5_vdnap_switch_volt(int speed_mode)
 		pmf_call_one(pfunc_vdnap0_complete, &args);
 		if (done)
 			break;
-		msleep(1);
+		usleep_range(1000, 1000);
 	}
 	if (done == 0)
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "cpufreq: Timeout in clock slewing !\n");
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static void g5_pfunc_switch_volt(int speed_mode)
 		if (pfunc_cpu1_volt_low)
 			pmf_call_one(pfunc_cpu1_volt_low, NULL);
 	}
-	msleep(10); /* should be faster , to fix */
+	usleep_range(10000, 10000); /* should be faster , to fix */
 }
 
 /*
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static int g5_pfunc_switch_freq(int speed_mode)
 		pmf_call_one(pfunc_slewing_done, &args);
 		if (done)
 			break;
-		msleep(1);
+		usleep_range(500, 500);
 	}
 	if (done == 0)
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "cpufreq: Timeout in clock slewing !\n");
-- 
1.8.3.2



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