Hi Ben,
On 01/18/2012 11:10 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 16:35 +0200, Laurentiu Tudor wrote:
This patch adds a menuconfig option that allows controlling
the lazy interrupt disabling feature implemented by this
commit:
commit d04c56f73c30a5e593202ecfcf25ed43d42363a2
Author: Paul Mackerras
Date: Wed Oct 4 16:47:49 2006 +1000
[POWERPC] Lazy interrupt disabling for 64-bit machines
The code in 'powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h' was rearranged and
cleaned-up a bit in order to reduce the number of needed #ifdef's.
It's still nasty.
Yep, there is still room for improvement. Perhaps trimming some of those
various interrupt enable/disable functions & macros. However I don't
think I have enough experience to do this ... so, any suggestions are
welcomed.
Do you have numbers showing that it's worth disabling
on BookE ?
On fsl's p5020 there should be some performance gains because disabling
"lazy ee" allows enabling the "external proxy" feature.
The thing is I can't prove this because I have no idea what benchmark to
run. Let me know if you guys know of any relevant benchmark I could try.
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Best Regards, Laurentiu
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