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Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 17:41:50 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To:     Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
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        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/20] mips: csrc-r4k: Decrease r4k-clocksource rating
 if CPU_FREQ enabled
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On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 08:42:36PM +0300, Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru wrote:
> From: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> 
> Commit 07d69579e7fe ("MIPS: Don't register r4k sched clock when
> CPUFREQ enabled") disabled the r4k-clock usage for scheduler ticks
> counting due to the scheduler being non-tolerant for unstable
> clocks sources. For the same reason the clock should be used
> in the system clocksource framework only as a last resort if CPU
> frequency may change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@baikalelectronics.ru>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c b/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
> index 437dda64fd7a..d81fb374f477 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ int __init init_r4k_clocksource(void)
>  		return -ENXIO;
>  
>  	/* Calculate a somewhat reasonable rating value */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ
>  	clocksource_mips.rating = 200 + mips_hpt_frequency / 10000000;
> +#else
> +	clocksource_mips.rating = 99;
> +#endif

I dislike this patch. Assuming you have an other clocksource, why not
simply disable csrc-r4k, if CPU_FREQ is enabled ?

Thomas.

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