Hi, On 15/5/19 18:48, Douglas Anderson wrote: > All currently known ECs in the wild are very sensitive to timing. > Specifically the ECs are known to drop a transfer if more than 8 ms > passes from the assertion of the chip select until the transfer > finishes. > > Let's use the new feature introduced in the patch (spi: Allow SPI > devices to request the pumping thread be realtime") to request the SPI > pumping thread be realtime. This means that if we get shunted off to > the SPI thread for whatever reason we won't get downgraded to low > priority. > > NOTES: > - We still need to keep ourselves as high priority since the SPI core > doesn't guarantee that all transfers end up on the pumping thread > (in fact, it tries pretty hard to do them in the calling context). > - If future Chrome OS ECs ever fix themselves to be less sensitive > then we could consider adding a property (or compatible string) to > not set this property. For now we need it across the board. > > Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- queued for 5.3 Thanks, Enric > > Changes in v4: None > Changes in v3: > - Updated description and variable name since we no longer force. > > Changes in v2: > - Renamed variable to "force_rt_transfers". > > drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c > index 1e38a885c539..daf3119191c8 100644 > --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c > +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_spi.c > @@ -740,6 +740,7 @@ static int cros_ec_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi) > > spi->bits_per_word = 8; > spi->mode = SPI_MODE_0; > + spi->rt = true; > err = spi_setup(spi); > if (err < 0) > return err; > _______________________________________________ Linux-rockchip mailing list Linux-rockchip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip
