On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Dmitry Osipenko <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
27.10.2015 16:48, Krzeminski, Marcin (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) пишет:
Hello,
I am playing with U-Boot on ARM under qemu.
U-boot uses mptimer, and under qemu one second takes about 1 in real
world.
At the moment it seem that in u-boot is ok, so I have question about
below function.
Why prescaler value is multiply by 10?
static inline uint64_t a9_gtimer_get_conv(A9GTimerState *s)
{
uint64_t prescale = extract32(s->control,
R_CONTROL_PRESCALER_SHIFT,
R_CONTROL_PRESCALER_LEN);
return (prescale + 1) * 10;
}
Regards,
Marcin
Hello Marcin,
From my observation, Linux kernel is booting noticeably faster in the
emulated guest and host machine CPU usage is lower if we "artificially"
slowdown the MPtimer. You really shouldn't use it for the RTC, so doing that
trick shouldn't affect guest behavior.
However, maybe there is some other rational behind it and Peter C and/or
Peter M might know better.
So I do wonder whether with your ptimer conversion this will be obsoleted, as
the rate limiter there may do the work for us.
Regards,
Peter
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Dmitry