Re: [PATCH] drm/dp: add module parameter for the dpcd access max retries

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Quoting Feng Tang (2018-05-07 11:36:09)
> To fulfil the Dell 4K monitor, the dpcd max retries has been bumped
> from 7 to 32, which may hurt the boot/init time for some platforms,
> as the 32 retries may take hundreds of ms.

If we need that many retries, so be it. No modparam, the driver just has
to work.
 
> This patch makes no functional change, but make the max retries
> adjustable, so that concerned users/platforms can have an option
> to short the wait time.
> 
> On a Intel Atom Processor A3960 based NUC, the i915_init() time could
> be reduced from 450ms to 200ms.
> 
> retries = 3:
>         [    0.457806] calling  i915_init+0x0/0x51 @ 1
>         [    0.662307] initcall i915_init+0x0/0x51 returned 0 after 199694 usecs
> 
> retries = 32:
>         [    0.465818] calling  i915_init+0x0/0x51 @ 1
>         [    0.925831] initcall i915_init+0x0/0x51 returned 0 after 449219 usecs

Why is this synchronous anyway?
-Chris
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