When checking out the new NO_HZ support in powerpc, I noticed we never
slept for more than 2 seconds. It turns out SLAB has a 2 second per cpu
timer that causes this.
After switching to SLUB I see some nice 4 second sleeps which is the
limit on this POWER6 box (the decrementer ticks at 512MHz):
slept 4.19 sec
slept 4.19 sec
slept 4.19 sec
slept 4.19 sec
slept 3.96 sec
slept 3.80 sec
slept 2.99 sec
Since SLUB is now the default and some powerpc defconfigs already enable
it, lets enable SLUB across the board for consistency. While doing this
I also noticed that the maple defconfig has SLAB debugging enabled which
is sure to make your box nice and slow. Fix that too.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This makes the 8560 evaluation board fully supported under arch/powerpc,
as the first board with CPM2 SoC peripherals. The brand new devicetree
nodes are introduced (intending to be a subset of the QuiccEngine-equipped
models, with dts sources placed into the kernel according to the new convention.
Assuming all the preceding stuff applied (PAL+fs_enet related+ CPM_UART
update), the both TSEC eth ,FCC Eths, and both SCC UARTs are
working. The relevant drivers are still capable to drive users in ppc,
which was verified with 8272ADS (SCC uart+FCC eth).
This is also verified on mpc8540 and actually make it work (PCI stuff
working as well)
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Anton Blanchard
Kumar Gala
Paul Mackerras
Vitaly Bordug