On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 06/21/13 14:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Something in my little brain yells: function pointer
> >
> > You can't be serious about hacking nested if/else/switch constructs
> > into a hot path.
> >
> > Why not making your cpu data:
> >
> > struct arch_timer {
> > struct clock_event_device evt;
> > ....
> > void (*write_ctrl)(val, timer);
> > void (*write_tval)(val, timer);
> > ....
> > }
> >
> > and get rid of all that conditionals?
>
> It sounds like that's undesirable according to the comment above
> arch_timer_reg_write(). It seems that all this code was written under
> the assumption that the compiler is good enough to optimize all the code
> paths and only generate the code that is necessary. So far this seems to
> be working and the hotpath is optimized for each type of access.
That might be true for kernels which are optimized for a specific
target, but this will fall flat for any multi-platform kernel.
Thanks,
tglx
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