[linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH 01/10] clk: sunxi: Add module 0 (storage) style clock support for A80

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Sun Dec 7 07:16:40 PST 2014


On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 09:13:46AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > (Which makes me wonder why do we the same spinlock for all the
> > instances of the mod0 clocks, but that's another story)
> 
> Are you worried about contention? AFAIK we don't do anything
> fancy in our code that would result in a major problem.
> I was wondering the same thing a while ago.

Yes. While I'm not overly concerned about a performance bottleneck, it
does seems a bit odd to have a shared lock when there's no shared
resources.

Maxime

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