From: Christoph Lameter Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:54:35 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] time_interpolator: Use readq_relaxed() instead of readq(). X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=685db65e422bfa523b8a9dacb5a658b42b254f05;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [PATCH] time_interpolator: Use readq_relaxed() instead of readq(). On some platforms readq performs additional work to make sure I/O is done in a coherent way. This is not needed for time retrieval as done by the time interpolator. So we can use readq_relaxed instead which will improve performance. It affects sparc64 and ia64 only. Apparently it makes a significant difference on ia64. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: john stultz Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index fe3a9a9f8328..fc6646fd5aab 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -1351,10 +1351,10 @@ static inline u64 time_interpolator_get_cycles(unsigned int src) return x(); case TIME_SOURCE_MMIO64 : - return readq((void __iomem *) time_interpolator->addr); + return readq_relaxed((void __iomem *)time_interpolator->addr); case TIME_SOURCE_MMIO32 : - return readl((void __iomem *) time_interpolator->addr); + return readl_relaxed((void __iomem *)time_interpolator->addr); default: return get_cycles(); }