On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:12:11PM +0900, Mark Brown wrote: > The changes in "i2c-s3c2410: use exponential back off while polling for > bus idle" remove the initial busy wait for I2C transfers to complete and > replace it with usleep_range() calls which will schedule. > > Since for older SoCs I2C transfers would usually complete within an > extremely small number of CPU cycles there is a win from not having to > schedule. This happens because on the older SoCs the cores run at a > smaller multiple of the speeds that the I2C bus is operating at; on more > modern SoCs the busy wait is less likely to be effective. > > Fix the issue by restoring the busy wait, reducing the number of spins > from 20 to 3 which covers the overwhelming majority of I2C transfers on > the SoCs where the busy wait is effective. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Applied to for-next, thanks everyone! -- Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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