Re: [PATCH] EHCI: Add module parameter to specify EHCI_IO_JIFFIES

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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Alek Du wrote:

> From b076459721690a5a03bc6490d0a98237ada74628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alek Du <alek.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:29:57 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] EHCI: Add module parameter to specify EHCI_IO_JIFFIES
> 
> The default EHCI_IO_JIFFIES is just waking up system too much (~10 times per
> second) and it won't benefit those no interrupt quirk EHCI controllers. This
> patch adds an io_jiffies parameter to ehci-hcd, user either could specify the
> parameter during modprobe time or provide ehci-hcd.io_jiffies=xxxx in kernel
> cmdline for ehci-hcd built-in case.

A better approach would be to get rid of the timer altogether except on 
systems where it was really needed.  Is it possible to tell at runtime 
whether the controller needs the IO_WATCHDOG timer?

Alan Stern

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