[PATCH v3 0/6] clocksource: rework Atmel TCB timer driver

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 28/03/2018 12:29, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 27. März 2018, 13:30:22 CEST schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
>> Can you can give a rough amount for the irq rate on the timer ?
> 
> I used itop [1] now to get a rough estimate. First with kernel v4.14.29-rt25 
> (fully preempt RT):
> 
> INT                NAME          RATE             MAX
>  19 [ vel     tc_clkevt]   397 Ints/s     (max:   432)
>  26 [      vel     eth0]     4 Ints/s     (max:    38)
> 
> Next test with kernel v4.15.13 gives (slightly slower, but non-RT):
> 
> INT                NAME          RATE             MAX
>  19 [ vel     tc_clkevt]   248 Ints/s     (max:   273)
>  26 [      vel     eth0]     4 Ints/s     (max:    11)
> 
> With kernel v4.16-rc7 plus this patch series and tcb as clocksource:
> 
> INT                NAME          RATE             MAX
>  17 [vel     timer at fffa]  2164 Ints/s     (max:  2183)
>  26 [      vel     eth0]     5 Ints/s     (max:    10)
> 
> Is this the information you wanted? If not, could you point me on how to get 
> the requested irq rate?

It is perfect. Thanks!

It confirms what I was worried about: the clocksource wraps up too
quickly thus raising an interrupt every 400us. That is why I asked
Alexande about a prescalar register.



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