Re: Improve timer Resolution on imx28

From: Marek Vasut
Date: Fri Dec 21 2012 - 09:52:15 EST


Dear Torben Hohn,

> Hi,
>
> this Series increases the timer frequency and decreases min_delta_ns.
> I saw pretty high max latencies with cyclictest: ~600us.
>
> The cause was the min_delta_ns value of 0xf 32kHz clockcycles.
> But with the 32kHz Clock, the period is still around 30us.
> So we just increase the clock freqeuncy driving the timers
> here.

Thanks for the set. Just a really quick question -- won't this under no
circumstance cause interrupt storm?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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