On Monday, October 14, 2013 3:21 PM Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:58:19PM +0200, Lukasz Dorau wrote: > > If EM Transmit bit is busy during init ata_msleep() is called. > > It is wrong - msleep() should be used instead of ata_msleep(), because > > if EM Transmit bit is busy for one port, it will be busy for all other > > ports too, so using ata_msleep() causes wasting tries for another > > ports. > > > > The most common scenario looks like that now (six ports try to > > transmit a LED meaasege): > > - port #0 tries for the 1st time and succeeds > > - ports #1-5 try for the 1st time and sleeps > > - port #1 tries for the 2nd time and succeeds > > - ports #2-5 try for the 2nd time and sleeps > > - port #2 tries for the 3rd time and succeeds > > - ports #3-5 try for the 3rd time and sleeps > > - port #3 tries for the 4th time and succeeds > > - ports #4-5 try for the 4th time and sleeps > > - port #4 tries for the 5th time and succeeds > > - port #5 tries for the 5th time and sleeps At this moment port #5 > > wasted all its five tries and failed to initialize. > > Because there are only 5 (EM_MAX_RETRY) tries available usually only > > five ports succeed to initialize. The sixth port and next ones usually will fail. > > > > If msleep() is used instead of ata_msleep() the first port succeeds to > > initialize in the first try and next ones usually succeed to initialize in the second > try. > > Ah, interesting. > > > Signed-off-by: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/ata/libahci.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/ata/libahci.c b/drivers/ata/libahci.c index > > acfd0f7..cf38692 100644 > > --- a/drivers/ata/libahci.c > > +++ b/drivers/ata/libahci.c > > @@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ static void ahci_start_port(struct ata_port *ap) > > emp->led_state, > > 4); > > if (rc == -EBUSY) > > - ata_msleep(ap, 1); > > + msleep(1); > > This is so unobvious. Can you please add a comment explaining what's going > on? > OK, I will send the second version of the patch soon. Thanks, Lukasz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
