Re: Regression: ftdi_sio is slow (since Wed Oct 10 15:05:06 2012)

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>]

03.05.2013 20:30, Greg KH пишет:
> We need some way to check the chars in the buffer, is the device you are
> using just very slow to respond to this request?  How slow?  Do you have
> a test case that we can see how it is affected?
Greg, unfortunately, I do have nothing.
The customer is in CC list, so maybe he will
provide the test-case, but I doubt.

Please, what are your concerns here?
The patch in question does this:
---
+ ret = usb_control_msg(port->serial->dev,
+ usb_rcvctrlpipe(port->serial->dev, 0),
+ FTDI_SIO_GET_MODEM_STATUS_REQUEST,
+ FTDI_SIO_GET_MODEM_STATUS_REQUEST_TYPE,
+ 0, priv->interface,
+ buf, 2, WDR_TIMEOUT);
---
Obviously, this is too expensive to call too frequently,
or am I missing something?
I asked the customer to comment out
tty_chars_in_buffer(tty) < WAKEUP_CHARS
line in n_tty.c, and he said that cured his problems,
so I think my guess was right.

The patch claims it only affects tcdrain() and close().
Its trivial to see it also affects poll(), select() and TIOCOUTQ
ioctl, so even from that it is already broken.
Why do you need a test-case for this?