linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/7] Revert "scsi: ncr5380: Increase register polling limit"

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Date:   Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:24:12 +1000
From:   Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
To:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Michael Schmitz" <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] Revert "scsi: ncr5380: Increase register polling limit"

This reverts commit 4822827a69d7cd3bc5a07b7637484ebd2cf88db6.

The purpose of that commit was to suppress a timeout warning message
which appeared to be caused by target latency. But suppressing the warning
is undesirable as the warning may indicate a messed up transfer count.

Another problem with that commit is that 15 ms is too long to keep
interrupts disabled as interrupt latency can cause system clock drift
and other problems.

Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 4822827a69d7 ("scsi: ncr5380: Increase register polling limit")
Tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@...oo.com>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>
---
 drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h b/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h
index efca509b92b0..5935fd6d1a05 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ struct NCR5380_cmd {
 #define NCR5380_PIO_CHUNK_SIZE		256
 
 /* Time limit (ms) to poll registers when IRQs are disabled, e.g. during PDMA */
-#define NCR5380_REG_POLL_TIME		15
+#define NCR5380_REG_POLL_TIME		10
 
 static inline struct scsi_cmnd *NCR5380_to_scmd(struct NCR5380_cmd *ncmd_ptr)
 {
-- 
2.21.0