[PATCH] ARM: imx: always use TWD on IMX6Q

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Wed Apr 6 08:39:07 PDT 2016


There is no reason to limit the TWD to be used on SMP kernels only if the
hardware has it available.
On Wandboard i.MX6SOLO, running PREEMPT-RT and cyclictest I see as max
immediately after start in idle:
UP : ~90us
SMP: ~50us
UP + TWD: ~20us.
Based on this numbers I prefer the TWD over the slightly slower MXC
timer.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
index 8ceda2844c4f..08bcf8fb76f2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ config SOC_IMX6Q
 	bool "i.MX6 Quad/DualLite support"
 	select ARM_ERRATA_764369 if SMP
 	select HAVE_ARM_SCU if SMP
-	select HAVE_ARM_TWD if SMP
+	select HAVE_ARM_TWD
 	select PCI_DOMAINS if PCI
 	select PINCTRL_IMX6Q
 	select SOC_IMX6
-- 
2.8.0.rc3




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