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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi/ncr5380: Improve interrupt latency during PIO tranfers

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First post2016-09-14 20:20 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi/ncr5380: Improve interrupt latency during PIO tranfers "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-09-14 20:20 +0200

#1483524 — Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi/ncr5380: Improve interrupt latency during PIO tranfers

From"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Date2016-09-14 20:20 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi/ncr5380: Improve interrupt latency during PIO tranfers
Message-ID<shmWR-4ek-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
>>>>> "Finn" == Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> writes:

Finn> Large PIO transfers are broken up into chunks to try to avoid
Finn> disabling local IRQs for long periods. But IRQs are still disabled
Finn> for too long and this causes SCC FIFO overruns during serial port
Finn> transfers.

Finn> This patch reduces the PIO chunk size to reduce interrupt latency
Finn> to something on the order of milliseconds, at the expense of
Finn> additional CPU overhead from extra iterations of the
Finn> NCR5380_main() loop.

Applied to 4.9/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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