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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] "NAND on UPM" and related patches
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:54:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47601245.2090907@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071212165513.GA30981@localhost.localdomain>

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:40:35AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
>> Not enough to be worth the complexity compared to the overhead of NAND
>> access -- especially in the likely case of a non-SMP build.
> 
> I'm allowing UPM access from the IRQ handlers (because nothing prevents
> this, so why deny?). Thus locks are needed even on non-SMP build,

No, it just needs to disable interrupts.  Which is what locks do on 
non-SMP.  The overhead of this is not worth 30 lines of code to avoid.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-10 20:47 [PATCH RFC 0/7] "NAND on UPM" and related patches Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:48 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] [POWERPC] Implement GPIO API embryo Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 16:48   ` Scott Wood
2007-12-12 17:10     ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:48 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] [POWERPC] QE: implement GPIO API Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:48 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] [POWERPC] CPM2: " Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 15:49   ` Jochen Friedrich
2007-12-12 16:03     ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 16:56   ` Scott Wood
2007-12-10 20:49 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] [GPIO] Let drivers link if they support GPIO API as an addition Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 22:55   ` David Brownell
2007-12-10 23:04     ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-02-22 23:42       ` David Brownell
2008-02-22 23:35         ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:49 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] [POWERPC] FSL UPM: routines to manage FSL UPMs Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:49 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] [POWERPC][NAND] FSL UPM NAND driver Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 20:49 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] [POWERPC] MPC8360E-RDK: add support for NAND on UPM Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-10 23:03   ` David Gibson
2007-12-10 23:16     ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 16:59   ` Scott Wood
2007-12-10 23:04 ` [PATCH RFC 0/7] "NAND on UPM" and related patches David Gibson
2007-12-10 23:10   ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-11  0:36     ` David Gibson
2007-12-12 12:47       ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-16  6:44         ` David Gibson
2007-12-12 16:39 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-12 16:40 ` Scott Wood
2007-12-12 16:55   ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 16:54     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-12-12 20:58       ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-12 21:06         ` Scott Wood
2007-12-12 21:13           ` Scott Wood
2007-12-13 14:09           ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-12-13  3:01 ` Chris Fester

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