Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:54:37AM +0900, Hironobu Ishii wrote:
> This is a readX_check() prototype patch to evaluate
> the performance disadvantage.

I think you've just demonstrated why this type of interface is unacceptable:

> + #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_RECOVERY
> +   {
> +    int read_fail;
> +    read_fail = CHIPREG_READ32(&pa, &ioc->chip->ReplyFifo);
> +    if (read_fail) {
> +     printk("PCI PIO read error:%d\n", read_fail);
> +     /* recovery code */
> +    }
> +    if (pa = 0xFFFFFFFF)
> +     return IRQ_HANDLED;
> +   }
> + #else
>     if ((pa = CHIPREG_READ32(&ioc->chip->ReplyFifo)) = 0xFFFFFFFF)
>      return IRQ_HANDLED;
> ! #endif

We go from two easily understood lines to ten plus the recovery code.
If indeed recovery is even possible.  An exception framework is clearly
the way to do this.

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