Hi! On 10/07/15 15:17, ext Vignesh R wrote: >>> I would propose you to throw away spinlocks. Convert threaded IRQ to >>> >> just one hardirq handler. And continue debugging. You will reduce the >>> >> load of the system with the above measures, maybe it will not happen >>> >> any more, maybe you'll figure out that problem is somewhere else. >> > >> > Or this. > I am not convinced with moving entire code at hardirq context. I believe > its better to keep hardirq as small as possible. How deep is the controller's FIFO? 1 byte? 2 bytes? Other drivers can perfectly fill next byte in hardirq handler. If you need to do 10 opcodes more in hardirq handler, it's much better for the whole system than to trigger scheduler and thread and and and just because of these 10 opcodes. -- Best regards, Alexander Sverdlin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
