[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: delay: allow timer-based delay implementation to be selected

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jul 13 08:23:26 EDT 2012


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:14:59PM +0100, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
> > Well, your bogomips number will probably be *much* lower than before, so
> > don't be surprised by that.
> >
> Indeed !!
> This is what I observed. Can we not keep that behavior old way. BogoMIPS and
> CPU clock is often very easy to co-related and helpful for CPUFREQ stats.

I defer to David Miller, who had a similar reaction when he did this for
sparc:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg08550.html

Will



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