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From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: srinivas.bakki@nxp.com, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kevin.wells@nxp.com,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	Bastian Hecht <hechtb@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: LPC32xx SLC NAND driver
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB25EAC.10205@antcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337088703.2528.208.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On 05/15/2012 03:31 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> As I understand loops_per_jiffy, this loop will take much longer
>> than the 100 ms you defined above?
> 
> Not sure about much, but longer. The idea is that this is about
> the error path so if we report -EIO with a slight delay - no
> problem.

Turned out that the condition (FIFO empty) is always true for me.
Keeping the check for safety reasons for now, doing the timeout with
msleep()s which should be (cpu-wise) "social" enough and are
unexpected anyway but do approximate the ms timeout more precisely.

Roland

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: stigge@antcom.de (Roland Stigge)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] MTD: LPC32xx SLC NAND driver
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB25EAC.10205@antcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337088703.2528.208.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On 05/15/2012 03:31 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> As I understand loops_per_jiffy, this loop will take much longer
>> than the 100 ms you defined above?
> 
> Not sure about much, but longer. The idea is that this is about
> the error path so if we report -EIO with a slight delay - no
> problem.

Turned out that the condition (FIFO empty) is always true for me.
Keeping the check for safety reasons for now, doing the timeout with
msleep()s which should be (cpu-wise) "social" enough and are
unexpected anyway but do approximate the ms timeout more precisely.

Roland

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
	Bastian Hecht <hechtb@googlemail.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Lei Wen <leiwen@marvell.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, kevin.wells@nxp.com, srinivas.bakki@nxp.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: LPC32xx SLC NAND driver
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB25EAC.10205@antcom.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337088703.2528.208.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>

On 05/15/2012 03:31 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> As I understand loops_per_jiffy, this loop will take much longer
>> than the 100 ms you defined above?
> 
> Not sure about much, but longer. The idea is that this is about
> the error path so if we report -EIO with a slight delay - no
> problem.

Turned out that the condition (FIFO empty) is always true for me.
Keeping the check for safety reasons for now, doing the timeout with
msleep()s which should be (cpu-wise) "social" enough and are
unexpected anyway but do approximate the ms timeout more precisely.

Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-12 13:29 [PATCH] MTD: LPC32xx SLC NAND driver Roland Stigge
2012-05-12 13:29 ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-12 13:29 ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-15  7:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15  7:55   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15  7:55   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15  8:15   ` Huang Shijie
2012-05-15  8:15     ` Huang Shijie
2012-05-15  8:15     ` Huang Shijie
2012-05-15  8:15     ` Huang Shijie
2012-05-15 13:20     ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-15 13:20       ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-15 13:20       ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-15 13:31       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15 13:31         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15 13:31         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-15 13:48         ` Roland Stigge [this message]
2012-05-15 13:48           ` Roland Stigge
2012-05-15 13:48           ` Roland Stigge

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