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From: dkota@codeaurora.org
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT" <linux-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Girish Mahadevan <girishm@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Add SPI driver support for GENI based QUP
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:27:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4982ce3fde57c86387cc906332f6d48@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=VzYYyive--RzN=_OCQnFT-wgHwbUy1Vao2-8GADxHDLw@mail.gmail.com>


>> I see there is no need of taking the spinlock as timeout will be 
>> handled
>> after the calculated time as per data size and speed.
>> There is 99.9% less chances of interrupt during the timeout handler.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/1201081
> 
> The thing is, we want it to be 100% reliable, not 99.9% reliable.  Is
> it somehow wrong to add the spinlock?  ...or are you noticing
> performance problems with the spinlock there?  It's just nice not to
> have to think about it.

As I said, timeout will be handled after the calculated time as per data 
size and speed. Enough time is given for interrupt, there is no chance 
of interrupt occurrence during the handle_fifo_timeout(). So there is no 
need of spinlock.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-10  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-24 10:42 [PATCH V3] spi: spi-geni-qcom: Add SPI driver support for GENI based QUP Dilip Kota
2018-08-25  5:21 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-25  6:14 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-29  0:25 ` Rob Herring
2018-08-29 11:19   ` dkota
2018-08-30  0:30     ` Rob Herring
2018-08-31  0:49 ` Stephen Boyd
2018-09-02  5:06 ` Doug Anderson
2018-09-07 10:00   ` dkota
2018-09-07 10:14     ` dkota
2018-09-07 16:19     ` Doug Anderson
2018-09-07 16:19     ` Doug Anderson
2018-09-10  3:57       ` dkota [this message]
2018-09-10 11:26         ` Mark Brown
2018-09-10 14:24           ` dkota

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