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From: Ian Arkver <ian.arkver.dev@gmail.com>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [media] s5k6aa: set usleep_range greater 0
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:10:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce9f2ee0-c0d3-2eb4-a733-b108d12b43fb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161213094346.GW16630@valkosipuli.retiisi.org.uk>

On 13/12/16 09:43, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 02:58:02AM +0100, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
>> As this is not in atomic context and it does not seem like a critical
>> timing setting a range of 1ms allows the timer subsystem to optimize
>> the hrtimer here.
> I'd suggest not to. These delays are often directly visible to the user in
> use cases where attention is indeed paid to milliseconds.
>
> The same applies to register accesses. An delay of 0 to 100 µs isn't much as
> such, but when you multiply that with the number of accesses it begins to
> add up.
>
Data sheet for this device [1] says STBYN deassertion to RSTN 
deassertion should be >50us, though this is actually referenced to MCLK 
startup. See Figure 36, Power-Up Sequence, page 42.

I think the usleep range here could be greatly reduced and opened up to 
allow hr timer tweaks if desired.

[1] http://www.bdtic.com/DataSheet/SAMSUNG/S5K6AAFX13.pdf

Regards,
Ian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20161213015743epcas3p19867fa74e5ffe2974364d317d9b494f6@epcas3p1.samsung.com>
2016-12-13  1:58 ` [PATCH RFC] [media] s5k6aa: set usleep_range greater 0 Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-12-13  9:43   ` Sakari Ailus
2016-12-13 10:10     ` Ian Arkver [this message]
2016-12-13 10:54       ` Sakari Ailus
2016-12-13 12:38   ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2016-12-13 14:10     ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-12-13 14:53       ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2016-12-15  1:14         ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-12-15 17:45           ` Sylwester Nawrocki

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