On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:27:09AM +0530, dkota@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > The thing is, we want it to be 100% reliable, not 99.9% reliable. Is > > it somehow wrong to add the spinlock? ...or are you noticing > > performance problems with the spinlock there? It's just nice not to > > have to think about it. > As I said, timeout will be handled after the calculated time as per data > size and speed. Enough time is given for interrupt, there is no chance of > interrupt occurrence during the handle_fifo_timeout(). So there is no need > of spinlock. Assuming nothing goes wrong - the system isn't under unusually heavy load for example, there's some oversight in the code, there's no impact from power management causing things to run more slowly than you were expecting, someone uses the driver on a new bit of hardware where there are extra considerations or whatever else might go wrong. Like Doug says unless we're in some performance critical situation where it's worth thinking *really* hard about how things really are actually safe even though they might not look it it's both easier and more maintainable to just write software that's obviously safe to inspection.
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