Re: [PATCH 1/3] libata: Remove excess delay in the tf_load path

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Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

We don't need to stall and wait after loading the task file and before

  You mean *before* loading the taskfile?

issuing a command, so don't do it. This shows up on profiles and is not
needed.

The same wait is in sff_irq_on() method, I doubt that it's really necessary as well, given that its result is always ignored...

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/ata/libata-sff.c |    3 ---
 drivers/ata/pata_via.c   |    2 --
 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
index b313896..17754a7 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
@@ -579,7 +579,6 @@ void ata_sff_tf_load(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
 		if (ioaddr->ctl_addr)
 			iowrite8(tf->ctl, ioaddr->ctl_addr);
 		ap->last_ctl = tf->ctl;
-		ata_wait_idle(ap);
 	}
if (is_addr && (tf->flags & ATA_TFLAG_LBA48)) {
@@ -615,8 +614,6 @@ void ata_sff_tf_load(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
 		iowrite8(tf->device, ioaddr->device_addr);
 		VPRINTK("device 0x%X\n", tf->device);
 	}
-
-	ata_wait_idle(ap);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ata_sff_tf_load);
diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_via.c b/drivers/ata/pata_via.c
index 741e7cb..87fb89e 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/pata_via.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/pata_via.c
@@ -417,8 +417,6 @@ static void via_tf_load(struct ata_port *ap, const struct ata_taskfile *tf)
 			tf->lbam,
 			tf->lbah);
 	}
-
-	ata_wait_idle(ap);
 }
static int via_port_start(struct ata_port *ap)

WBR, Sergei

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