On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:15:48AM +0200, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
> Remove busy looping during watchdog reset.
> Each polling of W_PEND_WTGR bit ("finish posted
> write") after watchdog reset takes 120-140us
> on BeagleBone Black board. Current U-Boot code
> has watchdog resets in random places and often
> there is situation when watchdog is reset
> few times in a row in nested functions.
> This adds extra delays and slows the whole system.
>
> Instead of polling W_PEND_WTGR bit, we skip
> watchdog reset if the bit is set. Anyway, watchdog
> is in the middle of reset *right now*, so we can
> just return.
>
> This noticeably increases performance of the
> system. Below are some measurements on BBB:
> - DFU upload over USB 15% faster
> - fastboot image upload 3x times faster
> - USB ep0 transfers with 4k packets 20% faster
>
> Signed-off-by: Ruslan Bilovol <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Sam Protsenko <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Alex Kiernan <[email protected]>Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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