Re: [v5 4/8] rsi: add coex support

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> From: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> With BT support, driver has to handle two streams of data
>>> (i.e. wlan and BT). Actual coex implementation is in firmware.
>>> Coex module just schedule the packets to firmware by taking them
>>> from the corresponding paths.
>>>
>>> Structures for module and protocol operations are introduced for
>>> this purpose. Protocol operations structure is global structure
>>> which can be shared among different modules. Initialization of
>>> coex and operating mode values is moved to rsi_91x_init().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <amit.karwar@redpinesignals.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> @@ -270,6 +271,7 @@ struct rsi_common {
>>>       u8 obm_ant_sel_val;
>>>       int tx_power;
>>>       u8 ant_in_use;
>>> +     struct semaphore tx_bus_lock;
>>
>> Do you really need to use semaphore? I think nowadays the preference is
>> to use something other than semaphores.
>
> We used semaphore here, as USB/SDIO bus write operations could be
> blocking/waiting. I will check if spinlock suits here in follow up
> patch. It will need some testing.

I was more thinking about using a mutex.

-- 
Kalle Valo