On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:43:32PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote: > + iicstat = readl(i2c->regs + S3C2410_IICSTAT); > + delay = 1; > + while ((iicstat & S3C2410_IICSTAT_START) && > + ktime_us_delta(now, start) < S3C2410_IDLE_TIMEOUT) { > + usleep_range(delay, 2 * delay); > + if (delay < S3C2410_IDLE_TIMEOUT / 10) > + delay <<= 1; > + now = ktime_get(); > + iicstat = readl(i2c->regs + S3C2410_IICSTAT); > + } > - /* first, try busy waiting briefly */ > - do { > - cpu_relax(); > - iicstat = readl(i2c->regs + S3C2410_IICSTAT); > - } while ((iicstat & S3C2410_IICSTAT_START) && --spins); On the hardware I was using when I wrote the original code here we were hitting 1-2 spins often enough to be interesting - starting off with a direct busy wait was definitely useful when doing large batches of I/O, especially compared to sleeps which might cause us to schedule. > - /* if that timed out sleep */ > - if (!spins) { > - msleep(1); > - iicstat = readl(i2c->regs + S3C2410_IICSTAT); > - } It seems like it'd be better to do the exponential backoff bit here instead of removing the busy wait completely. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html