ncr5380: Rework disconnect versus poll logic
The atari_NCR5380.c and NCR5380.c core drivers differ in their handling of target disconnection. This is partly because atari_NCR5380.c had all of the polling and sleeping removed to become entirely interrupt-driven, and it is partly because of damage done to NCR5380.c after atari_NCR5380.c was forked. See commit 37cd23b4 ("Linux 2.1.105") in history/history.git. The polling changes that were made in v2.1.105 are questionable at best: if REQ is not already asserted when NCR5380_transfer_pio() is invoked, and if the expected phase is DATA IN or DATA OUT, the function will schedule main() to execute after USLEEP_SLEEP jiffies and then return. The problems here are the expected REQ timing and the sleep interval*. Avoid this issue by using NCR5380_poll_politely() instead of scheduling main(). The atari_NCR5380.c core driver requires the use of the chip interrupt and always permits target disconnection. It sets the cmd->device->disconnect flag when a device disconnects, but never tests this flag. The NCR5380.c core driver permits disconnection only when instance->irq != NO_IRQ. It sets the cmd->device->disconnect flag when a device disconnects and it tests this flag in a couple of places: 1. During NCR5380_information_transfer(), following COMMAND OUT phase, if !cmd->device->disconnect, the initiator will take a guess as to whether or not the target will then choose to go to MESSAGE IN phase and disconnect. If the driver guesses "yes", it will schedule main() to execute after USLEEP_SLEEP jiffies and then return there. Unfortunately the driver may guess "yes" even after it has denied the target the disconnection privilege. When the target does not disconnect, the sleep can be beneficial, assuming the sleep interval is appropriate (mostly it is not*). And even if the driver guesses "yes" correctly, and the target would then disconnect, the driver still has to go through the MESSAGE IN phase in order to get to BUS FREE phase. The main loop can do nothing useful until BUS FREE, and sleeping just delays the phase transition. 2. If !cmd->device->disconnect and REQ is not already asserted when NCR5380_information_transfer() is invoked, the function polls for REQ for USLEEP_POLL jiffies. If REQ is not asserted, it then schedules main() to execute after USLEEP_SLEEP jiffies and returns. The idea is apparently to yeild the CPU while waiting for REQ. This is conditional upon !cmd->device->disconnect, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason for that. For example, the flag may be unset because disconnection privilege was denied because the driver has no IRQ. Or the flag may be unset because the device has never needed to disconnect before. Or if the flag is set, disconnection may have no relevance to the present bus phase. Another deficiency of the existing algorithm is as follows. When the driver has no IRQ, it prevents disconnection, and generally polls and sleeps more than it would normally. Now, if the driver is going to poll anyway, why not allow the target to disconnect? That way the driver can do something useful with the bus instead of polling unproductively! Avoid this pointless latency, complexity and guesswork by using NCR5380_poll_politely() instead of scheduling main(). * For g_NCR5380, the time intervals for USLEEP_SLEEP and USLEEP_POLL are 200 ms and 10 ms, respectively. They are 20 ms and 200 ms respectively for the other NCR5380 drivers. There doesn't seem to be any reason for this discrepancy. The timing seems to have no relation to the type of adapter. Bizarrely, the timing in g_NCR5380 seems to relate only to one particular type of target device. This patch attempts to solve the problem for all NCR5380 drivers and all target devices. Signed-off-by:Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Reviewed-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Tested-by:
Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Tested-by:
Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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