Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64:vdso: Rewrite gettimeofday into C.

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From	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64:vdso: Rewrite gettimeofday into C.
Date	Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:30:03 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 04:47:00PM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> This allows the compiler to optimize the divide by 1000.
> And remove the other divide.
> 
> On ThunderX, gettimeofday improves by 32%.  On ThunderX 2,
> gettimeofday improves by 18%.

Is this with or without the second patch (removing the ISB)?

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Catalin

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[PATCH 1/2] arm64:vdso: Rewrite gettimeofday into C. Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2017-04-24 02:50 +0200
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