Re: [PATCH] Revert 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b to fix pyaudio (and probably more)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Jan 04 2015 - 16:40:55 EST


On Sun 2015-01-04 21:26:59, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 04:20:57PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It wasted a lot of people's time before by simply being there and wrong
> > > > before it was removed. It's only a matter of whose time you want to
> > > > waste. Really.
> > >
> > > Really. Shut up.
> > >
> > > The whole "no regressions" thing is very much about the fact that we
> > > don't waste users time.
> >
> > I was talking about users time all along.
> >
> > Never mind. I'm sorry for the NAK and sorry for attempting to start a
> > discussion to find a better replacement.
>
> Nico,
>
> I encourage you *not* to back down like this. Linus is right in so far
> as the regressions issue, but he is *totally* wrong to do the revert,
> which IMHO has been done out of nothing more than spite.
>
> Either *with or without* the revert, the issue still remains, and needs
> to be addressed properly.
>
> With the revert in place, we now have insanely small bogomips values
> reported via /proc/cpuinfo when hardware timers are used. That needs
> fixing.

Too bad 9fc2105aeaaf56b0cf75296a84702d0f9e64437b's changelog did not
mention that :-(.

I see reasonable values on Nokia N900. Do I need to change my config
to see the problem, or should I try reproducing on socfpga board?

Pavel
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