[PATCH 5/5] ARM: smp: Skip secondary cpu calibration to speed-up boot
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jan 24 05:30:43 EST 2011
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:21:19PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On some architectures, secondary cores shares clock with primiary
> core and hence scale together. Hence secondary core lpj calibration
> is not necessary and can be skipped to save considerable time.
>
> This can speed up the secondary cpu boot and hotplug cpu online
> paths.
I still point out that this will be a user visible change in /proc/cpuinfo.
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