Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Sleep waiting for tcs slots to be free

Lina Iyer
2020-07-24T20:24:23Z

On Fri, Jul 24 2020 at 14:11 -0600, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>Quoting Lina Iyer (2020-07-24 13:08:41)
>> On Fri, Jul 24 2020 at 14:01 -0600, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> >Quoting Doug Anderson (2020-07-24 12:49:56)
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:44 PM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> wrote:
>> >I think Lina was alluding to this earlier in this
>> >thread.
>> I was thinking more of threaded irq handler than a kthread to post the
>> requests. We went away from post-thread approach a few years ago.
>>
>
>Ok, got it. Why was the kthread approach abandoned?

Simplification mostly, I think. Also, somebody requested that when the
async call returns they would atleast be guaranteed that the request has
been posted not necessarily processed at the remote end.