On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:07:28 +0400 Anton Vorontsov <avoront...@mvista.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Currently the sdhci driver does everything in the atomic context. > And what is worse, PIO transfers are made from the IRQ handler. > > This causes huge latencies (up to 120 ms). On some P2020 SOCs, > DMA and card detection is broken, which means that kernel polls > for the card via PIO transfers every second. Needless to say > that this is quite bad. > > So, this patch set reworks sdhci code to avoid atomic context, > almost completely. We only do two device memory operations > in the atomic context, and all the rest is threaded. > > I noticed no throughput drop neither with PIO transfers nor > with DMA (tested on MPC8569E CPU), while latencies should be > greatly improved. > The patchset looks good to me, but it'd be nice to hear from the other people who work on this code, please? _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
