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[PATCH 4.10 08/21] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix extreme low-latency setting

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  [PATCH 4.10 08/21] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix extreme low-latency setting Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-24 09:50 +0100

#1587383 — [PATCH 4.10 08/21] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix extreme low-latency setting

FromGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date2017-02-24 09:50 +0100
Subject[PATCH 4.10 08/21] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: fix extreme low-latency setting
Message-ID<tejJE-61L-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
4.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit c6dce2626606ef16434802989466636bc28c1419 upstream.

Since commit 557aaa7ffab6 ("ft232: support the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY
flag") the FTDI driver has been using a receive latency-timer value of
1 ms instead of the device default of 16 ms.

The latency timer is used to periodically empty a non-full receive
buffer, but a status header is always sent when the timer expires
including when the buffer is empty. This means that a two-byte bulk
message is received every millisecond also for an otherwise idle port as
long as it is open.

Let's restore the pre-2009 behaviour which reduces the rate of the
status messages to 1/16th (e.g. interrupt frequency drops from 1 kHz to
62.5 Hz) by not setting ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY by default.

Anyone willing to pay the price for the minimum-latency behaviour should
set the flag explicitly instead using the TIOCSSERIAL ioctl or a tool
such as setserial (e.g. setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 low_latency).

Note that since commit 0cbd81a9f6ba ("USB: ftdi_sio: remove
tty->low_latency") the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag has no other effects but
to set a minimal latency timer.

Reported-by: Antoine Aubert <a.aubert@overkiz.com>
Fixes: 557aaa7ffab6 ("ft232: support the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1802,8 +1802,6 @@ static int ftdi_sio_port_probe(struct us
 
 	mutex_init(&priv->cfg_lock);
 
-	priv->flags = ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY;
-
 	if (quirk && quirk->port_probe)
 		quirk->port_probe(priv);
 

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