Re: yield() in i2c non-happy paths hits BUG under -rt patch

Jean Delvare
2009-11-18T16:52:02Z

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:28:53 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Our timers are very efficient and some day we will need to make jiffies a
> > function and stop the timer ticking for best performance. At that point
> > timers are probably the most efficient way to do much of this.
>
> The problem with I2C bitbanged is the stringent timing, we need a way
> to have fine-grained sleeping
> mixed with real-time tasks in order to make this work.

FWIW, the problem that was initially reported has nothing to do with
this. i2c-algo-bit used mdelay() during transactions, not yield().
yield() is used only in once place, _between_ transactions attempts.
There are no strict timing constraints there.

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Jean Delvare