Re: [PATCH 08/13] i2c: nomadik: replace jiffies by ktime for FIFO flushing timeout

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 09:53:37 EST


On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 3:38 PM Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Somewhat related to this patch: while writing it, I noticed the total
> timeout of flush_i2c_fifo() is 10 times the timeout. Without this
> series, this means 10*200ms of busywaiting!
>
> If you have an opinion on a more sensible option for this I could add a
> patch to my V2. I don't know enough to pick a sensible value.
>
> I'm unsure if it makes sense that the timeout of flush_i2c_fifo() is a
> multiple of the transfer timeout. Does it make sense that those two
> timeouts are correlated?

I have a *vague* memory of the timeouts for flushing needing to be longer
but I might be mistaken. This is probably a Srinidhi or even Sachin question...
Sadly I don't have their current mail addresses.

Yours,
Linus Walleij