Re: [PATCH v3 05/15] phy: rockchip-emmc: Increase lock time allowance

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Douglas Anderson
>> <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Previous PHY code waited a fixed amount of time for the DLL to lock at
>>> power on time.  Unfortunately, the time for the DLL to lock is actually
>>> a bit more dynamic and can be longer if the card clock is slower.
>>>
>>> Instead of waiting a fixed 30 us, let's now dynamically wait until the
>>> lock bit gets set.  We'll wait up to 10 ms which should be OK even if
>>> the card clock is at the super slow 100 kHz.
>>>
>>
>> 10 ms active delay (no sleep) is actually quite long. Can this code sleep ?
>
> It is expected that in nearly all cases it will be much shorter than
> 10ms.  The longest expected (at 400kHz) is 1.3 ms and we should only
> be probing down to 300, 200, 100 kHz if we are having trouble
> communicating.  When running at a normal speed (50 MHz, 100 MHz, etc)
> it should be much smaller and closer to 10 us or less.  We could still
> try to sleep in some of these cases, but IMHO the extra code
> complexity for something like this that should happen very
> infrequently (only at bootup or if we decide to re-tune) is probably
> not worth it.  Also note that at boot eMMC is (probably) on the
> critical path, so there may be some boot speed benefits to continuing
> as quickly as possible.
>

Makes sense.

Thanks,
Guenter
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