Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> writes: >> +static int ssbi_wait_mask(struct msm_ssbi *ssbi, u32 set_mask, u32 clr_mask) >> +{ >> + u32 timeout = SSBI_TIMEOUT_US; >> + u32 val; >> + >> + while (timeout--) { >> + val = ssbi_readl(ssbi, SSBI2_STATUS); >> + if (((val & set_mask) == set_mask) && ((val & clr_mask) == 0)) >> + return 0; >> + udelay(1); > > Busy loop? Really?
Finally was able to dig up some of the reason for this. The transactions typically take about 5us. In the case of contention with another CPU, it could take as much as 20us. Would it be sufficient to just explain this in a comment? David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
