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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, T-Bone@parisc-linux.org,
	grundler@parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	varenet@parisc-linux.org, Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/9] tulip: NatSemi DP83840A PHY fix
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:52:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44509477.4010001@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604270932.k3R9W4Xj025312@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> +				if (startup) {
> +					int timeout = 10;	/* max 1 ms */
>  					for (i = 0; i < reset_length; i++)
>  						iowrite32(get_u16(&reset_sequence[i]) << 16, ioaddr + CSR15);
> +
> +					/* flush posted writes */
> +					ioread32(ioaddr + CSR15);
> +
> +					/* Sect 3.10.3 in DP83840A.pdf (p39) */
> +					udelay(500);
> +
> +					/* Section 4.2 in DP83840A.pdf (p43) */
> +					/* and IEEE 802.3 "22.2.4.1.1 Reset" */
> +					while (timeout-- &&
> +						(tulip_mdio_read (dev, phy_num, MII_BMCR) & BMCR_RESET))
> +						udelay(100);


What can we do about this?

Its a huge delay to be taken inside a spinlock.

Anybody interested to converting the driver to use schedule_work() or 
similar?

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27  9:30 [patch 2/9] tulip: NatSemi DP83840A PHY fix akpm
2006-04-27  9:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-04-27 10:21   ` Thibaut VARENE

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