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

From: Aaro Koskinen
Date: Sun Jan 04 2015 - 17:28:03 EST


Hi,

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 10:40:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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?

I believe Nokia boards fall into the "antique hardware" category, so for
us using such HW the issue is not visible...

A.
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