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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ed Co <edityacomm_knb@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Bottom halves being disabled
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:24:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093350246.14552.12435.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040824120929.1377.qmail@web52204.mail.yahoo.com>

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:09 -0700, Ed Co wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In the NOR driver code, the spin locks are acquired
> everywhere with bottom halves disabled using the
> spin_lock_bh() API. My doubt is why are the bottom
> halves disabled? (Doesn't that add to the real time
> latency on the system!)
> 
> Hoping someone would clear the doubt

Because we intend the erase completion to be asynchronous, hence we lock
against the timers which may one day check for it. There's no real
reason we couldn't switch to spin_lock() for now.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-24 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-24 12:09 Bottom halves being disabled Ed Co
2004-08-24 12:24 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-08-25  2:36   ` Linh Dang
2004-08-25  9:38     ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-25 10:48       ` Linh Dang
2004-08-25 10:53         ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-25 12:46           ` Linh Dang
2004-09-09 18:12           ` Hi Latency in do_read_onechip (was Re: Bottom halves being disabled) Linh Dang
2004-08-24 12:28 ` Bottom halves being disabled Josh Boyer

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