Re: [PATCH v3 18/77] ncr5380: Eliminate USLEEP_WAITLONG delay

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On 12/22/2015 01:38 PM, Finn Thain wrote:

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

On 12/22/2015 02:17 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
Linux 2.1.105 introduced the USLEEP_WAITLONG delay, apparently "needed for
Mustek scanners". It is intended to stall the issue queue for 5 seconds.
There are a number of problems with this.

1. Only g_NCR5380 enables the delay, which implies that the other five
     drivers using the NCR5380.c core driver remain incompatible with
     Mustek scanners.

2. The delay is not implemented by atari_NCR5380.c, which is problematic
     for re-unifying the two core driver forks.

3. The delay is implemented using NCR5380_set_timer() which makes it
     unreliable. A new command queued by the mid-layer cancels the delay.

4. The delay is applied indiscriminately in several situations in which
     NCR5380_select() returns -1. These are-- reselection by the target,
     failure of the target to assert BSY, and failure of the target to
     assert REQ. It's clear from the comments that USLEEP_WAITLONG is not
     relevant to the reselection case. And reportedly, these scanners do
     not disconnect.

5. atari_NCR5380.c was forked before Linux 2.1.105, so it was spared some
     of the damage done to NCR5380.c. In this case, the atari_NCR5380.c core
     driver was more standard-compliant and may not have needed any
     workaround like the USLEEP_WAITLONG kludge. The compliance issue was
     addressed in the previous patch.

If these scanners still don't work, we need a better solution. Retrying
selection until EH aborts a command offers equivalent robustness. Bugs in
the existing driver prevent EH working correctly but this is addressed in
a subsequent patch. Remove USLEEP_WAITLONG.

Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
   drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c   |   19 +++++--------------
   drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c |    1 -
   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c	2015-12-22 12:15:51.000000000 +1100
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c	2015-12-22 12:15:52.000000000 +1100
@@ -468,10 +468,6 @@ static void NCR5380_print_phase(struct S
   #ifndef USLEEP_POLL
   #define USLEEP_POLL msecs_to_jiffies(200)
   #endif
-#ifndef USLEEP_WAITLONG
-/* RvC: (reasonable time to wait on select error) */
-#define USLEEP_WAITLONG USLEEP_SLEEP
-#endif

   /*
    * Function : int should_disconnect (unsigned char cmd)
@@ -619,8 +615,8 @@ static void prepare_info(struct Scsi_Hos
             "can_queue %d, cmd_per_lun %d, "
             "sg_tablesize %d, this_id %d, "
             "flags { %s%s%s%s}, "
-#if defined(USLEEP_POLL) && defined(USLEEP_WAITLONG)
-		 "USLEEP_POLL %lu, USLEEP_WAITLONG %lu, "
+#if defined(USLEEP_POLL) && defined(USLEEP_SLEEP)
+		 "USLEEP_POLL %lu, USLEEP_SLEEP %lu, "
   #endif
             "options { %s} ",
             instance->hostt->name, instance->io_port, instance->n_io_port,
@@ -631,8 +627,8 @@ static void prepare_info(struct Scsi_Hos
             hostdata->flags & FLAG_DTC3181E      ? "DTC3181E "      : "",
             hostdata->flags & FLAG_NO_PSEUDO_DMA ? "NO_PSEUDO_DMA " : "",
             hostdata->flags & FLAG_TOSHIBA_DELAY ? "TOSHIBA_DELAY "  : "",
-#if defined(USLEEP_POLL) && defined(USLEEP_WAITLONG)
-	         USLEEP_POLL, USLEEP_WAITLONG,
+#if defined(USLEEP_POLL) && defined(USLEEP_SLEEP)
+	         USLEEP_POLL, USLEEP_SLEEP,
   #endif
   #ifdef AUTOPROBE_IRQ
             "AUTOPROBE_IRQ "
Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the USLEEP_WAITLONG completely?
 From what I can see it is meant to indicate that WAITLONG is enabled,
but we've just removed that functionality...

Actually, this patch does remove USLEEP_WAITLONG completely. It does not
remove USLEEP_POLL and USLEEP_SLEEP. In patch 25, the USLEEP_POLL and
USLEEP_SLEEP stuff is replaced by an algorithm that sleeps while polling.

You are right that adding USLEEP_SLEEP to this snprintf() is a change that
doesn't really belong here. But since I was changing those lines anyway,
it seemed like a good time to fix a mistake I made when I first added the
snprintf() and wrote "USLEEP_POLL, USLEEP_WAITLONG" instead of
"USLEEP_POLL, USLEEP_SLEEP".

Shall I revise this patch? That will affect patch 25. Or perhaps I should
add the snprintf() change in the commit log?

Thanks for your review.

Na, that's fine. The entire thing got removed in a later patch, so no worries.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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