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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:49:13 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sonic.zhang@...log.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: Change hardware flowcontrol from poll to interrupt driven. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 17:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:42:46 +0800 Bryan Wu wrote: >> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@...log.com> >> >> Only CTS bit is affected. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@...log.com> >> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org> > > Another completely useless changelog. the summary, while brief, describes the change: the flowcontrol is currently implemented by polling, but this changes it to an interrupt based system > Your [PATCH 00/18] email described all these patches as > needed-in-2.6.29 bugfixes. As far as I can tell (based on almost zero > information), this patch is not a bugfix. because the current implementation is polling (busy waiting), the kernel will basically hang when the remote asserts hardware flowcontrol pins. if this is only asserted for short periods (less than 1 char time), then it's not really noticed ... but it still destroys latencies. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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