Re: [PATCH v3 01/12] serial: Store character timing information to uart_port

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 11:33:10AM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> Struct uart_port currently stores FIFO timeout. Having character
> timing information readily available is useful. Even serial core
> itself determines char_time from port->timeout using inverse
> calculation.
> 
> Store frame_time directly into uart_port. Character time is stored
> in nanoseconds to have reasonable precision with high rates.
> To avoid overflow, 64-bit math is necessary.
> 
> It might be possible to determine timeout from frame_time by
> multiplying it with fifosize as needed but only part of the
> users seem to be protected by a lock. Thus, this patch does
> not pursue storing only frame_time in uart_port.

...

> -	char_time = (port->timeout - HZ/50) / port->fifosize;
> -	char_time = char_time / 5;
> -	if (char_time == 0)
> -		char_time = 1;
> +	char_time = max(nsecs_to_jiffies(port->frame_time / 5), 1UL);
> +
>  	if (timeout && timeout < char_time)
>  		char_time = timeout;

Seems it can be packed to something like

	char_time = min_not_zero(nsecs_to_jiffies(port->frame_time / 5), timeout);

?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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