From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, skiboot@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL console standardise OPAL_BUSY loops
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:22:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1523262156.11062.14.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180409161342.02f41b8a@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 16:13 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> We can always make exceptions to the standard form, but in those
> cases I would like to document it in the OPAL API and comment for
> the Linux side.
>
> My thinking in this case is that it reduces time in firmware and
> in particular holding console locks. Is it likely / possible that
> we don't have enough buffering or some other issue makes it worth
> retrying so quickly?
Not sure to be honest, but yeah limiting the lock contention inside
OPAL is probably not a bad idea.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-09 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-09 5:24 [PATCH v2 0/9] first step of standardising OPAL_BUSY handling Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] powerpc/powernv: define a standard delay for OPAL_BUSY type retry loops Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL RTC driver standardise OPAL_BUSY loops Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] powerpc/powernv: opal_put_chars partial write fix Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL console standardise OPAL_BUSY loops Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-04-09 6:13 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 8:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL platform " Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL NVRAM driver standardise OPAL_BUSY delays Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] powerpc/powernv: OPAL dump support " Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] powerpc/xive: " Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-09 5:24 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] powerpc/powernv: opal-kmsg standardise OPAL_BUSY handling Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-10 5:01 ` Russell Currey
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