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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] mmc_spi: allow higher timeouts for SPI mode
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:55:00PM +0100, Wolfgang Mües wrote:
>
> My patch 6 in mmc_spi_skip() is doing a busy-wait for a short while ( less
> than 1 jiffie), and starts to call schedule() inside the loop if the card is
> slower.
>

OK, but if my machine runs at 100 HZ then a jiffie is 10ms. Previously
(without your patch) we waited for 300ms in the write case and 100ms in
the read case. So, it's not unreasonable to think that a response is
going to take more than 10ms. With your patch we're almost always going
to schedule() with no indication of exactly when we're going to come
back.

> My goal was to avoid the long-lasting busy waiting. I have measured times up
> to 900ms! With my patch, the longest busy waiting will be 1 jiffie.
>

I agree that busy-waiting for 900ms would be a bit mad. Is there a
reason that you didn't implement this with msleep() as was noted in the
comment above the timeout?


/* REVISIT investigate msleep() to avoid busy-wait I/O
* in at least some cases.
*/


> And yes, if the SD card is sending its response after 5 jiffies, it is
> recognized only after the scheduler schedules this process, which will incure
> a delay to the data transfer. The amount of delay is determined by the number
> of running processes and the number of HZ.
>

Have you benchmarked this case? Do you know approximately how long it
is before we return from the schedule() under various workloads?
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