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Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance by ignoring burstcount

From Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance by ignoring burstcount
Date 2017-08-16 00:10 +0200
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On 8/13/2017 7:53 PM, msuchanek wrote:
> About 500 out of 700 mainboards sold today has a PS/2 port which is
> probably due to prevalence of legacy devices and usbhid limitations.
> 
> Similarily many boards have serial and parallel hardware ports.
> 
> In all diagrams detailed enough to show these ports I have seen them
> attached to the LPC bus.

Do these boards have a TPM?  Remember that the TPM requires special LPC 
bus cycles.

Even if so, the TPM LPC bus wait states are less than a usec.  My 
thought is that  it's unlikely that any device (serial port, mouse, 
keyboard, printer) will be adversely affected.

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Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance  by ignoring burstcount msuchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> - 2017-08-14 02:00 +0200
  Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance by  ignoring burstcount Ken Goldman <kgold@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-08-16 00:10 +0200
    Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] tpm: improve tpm_tis send() performance  by ignoring burstcount Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> - 2017-08-16 12:30 +0200

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