Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:29:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] clockevents: Retry programming min delta up to 10 times |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, Matt Redfearn wrote: > On 19/10/17 13:43, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > delta = 0; > > for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { > > delta += dev->min_delta_ns; > > dev->next_event = ktime_add_ns(ktime_get(), delta); > > clc = ..... > > ..... > > > > That makes it more likely to succeed fast. Hmm? > > That will set the target time to increasing multiples of min_delta_ns in the > future, right?
Yes, but without fiddling with min_delta_ns itself.
> Sure, it should make it succeed faster - I'll make it like > that. Are you OK with the arbitrarily chosen 10 retries?
I lost my crystalball so I have to trust yours :)
Thanks,
tglx
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