Re: [PATCH V12 0/5] mmc: Add Command Queue support

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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26/10/17 16:32, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> My patch series switches the stack around to make it possible
>> to do this. But it doesn't go the whole way to complete the requests
>> from interrupt context.
>>
>> Since we have to send commands for retune etc request finalization
>> cannot easily be done from interrupt context.
>
> Re-tuning and background operations are rare and slow, so there is no reason
> to try to start them from interrupt context.

OK I will try to get them out of the way and see what happens,
hehe :)

What I mean is that we were checking - on every command -
if BKOPS or retune needs to happen. And then doing it. Thus
all was done in process context.

>> But I am thinking about testing to hack it
>> using some ugly approaches ... like assuming we don't need any
>> retune etc and just say all is fine and optimistically complete the
>> request directly in the interrupt handler if all was OK and wait
>> for errors to happen before retuning.
>
> It already works that way.  Re-tuning happens before you start a request.
> We prevent re-tuning in between dependent requests, like between starting a
> transfer and CMD13 polling for completion.

Ah that is what these if()s do ... right. I'll see if I can get around
this then.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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