[RFC PATCH v3 1/2] clk: samsung: Add a clock lookup function

[Tomasz Figa]

Hi Javier,

2015-03-31 0:53 GMT+09:00 Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier.martinez at collabora.co.uk>:
> The Samsung helpers functions to register clocks, add the clock instance
> returned by the common clock framework to a lookup table that is used by
> OF to lookup the clocks.
>
> But this table could also be useful to clock drivers if they need to get
> a clock instance since the helper functions don't return them.
>
> The common clock framework __clk_lookup() function from the clk provider
> API could be used by drivers as well. But it's more efficient to use the
> Samsung specific lookup table that returns the clock instance in constant
> time, than using the __clk_lookup() function that uses the clock name as
> an index so it has a linear search time.

Is this really something we should be concerned about? If so, maybe
the generic look-up function should be rewritten to use something
faster, such as tree or hash table?

Best regards,
Tomasz