From: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com (Jarkko Sakkinen)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/4] tpm: ignore burstcount to improve tpm_tis send() performance
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 22:19:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171128201903.ndd4j3xw3ubfaa4y@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <694703AB-68E1-4026-937C-61DBBE08DB4B@paramecium.org>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:08:51AM +0000, Leendert van Doorn wrote:
> Hmm, this is almost 20 years old code (
>
> I think the original code did a burst write and didn't check for error
> conditions until the very last byte write. I seem to remember that
> there was some text in the original standard to that effect (this may
> have gone back as far as IBM's ESS spec).
>
> The current code does check for error conditions after each write
> byte(s) so I don't think there is any reason for this anymore.
> Changing the while condition to count < len and setting burstcnt =
> min_t(int, burstcnt, len - count) and remove the
> tpm_tis_write8/wait_for_tpm_stat/tpm_tis_status clauses after the
> while loop should be sufficient.
Thank you for sharing this!
> Leendert
/Jarkko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 20:32 [PATCH v4 0/4] additional TPM performance improvements Nayna Jain
2017-10-17 20:32 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] tpm: move wait_for_tpm_stat() to respective driver files Nayna Jain
2017-10-19 14:21 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-19 17:00 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-10-20 8:56 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-23 13:32 ` Nayna Jain
2017-10-24 13:45 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-17 20:32 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] tpm: ignore burstcount to improve tpm_tis send() performance Nayna Jain
2017-10-18 15:25 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-19 14:23 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-20 14:42 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-10-20 18:02 ` Ken Goldman
2017-10-23 2:57 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-11-07 18:29 ` Nayna Jain
2017-11-08 11:32 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-11-16 14:34 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-11-22 6:52 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-11-23 14:47 ` Nayna Jain
2017-11-23 16:19 ` Alexander.Steffen at infineon.com
2017-11-26 15:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-11-26 16:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-27 7:08 ` Leendert van Doorn
2017-11-27 13:22 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-11-28 20:19 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2017-10-17 20:32 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] tpm: reduce tpm polling delay in tpm_tis_core Nayna Jain
2017-10-18 15:24 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-19 14:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2017-10-17 20:32 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] tpm: use tpm_msleep() value as max delay Nayna Jain
2017-10-19 14:22 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
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