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author | Lukasz Dorau | 2013-10-14 18:18:53 +0200 |
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committer | Tejun Heo | 2013-10-15 09:39:57 -0400 |
commit | fa070ee6dc70bcc19737a2406d741b089b3149d5 (patch) | |
tree | 473e3c82fd89791131c0d051a378f9178443f002 /README | |
parent | f13e220161e738c2710b9904dcb3cf8bb0bcce61 (diff) |
libahci: fix turning on LEDs in ahci_start_port()
If EM Transmit bit is busy during init ata_msleep() is called. It is
wrong - msleep() should be used instead of ata_msleep(), because if EM
Transmit bit is busy for one port, it will be busy for all other ports
too, so using ata_msleep() causes wasting tries for another ports.
The most common scenario looks like that now
(six ports try to transmit a LED meaasege):
- port #0 tries for the 1st time and succeeds
- ports #1-5 try for the 1st time and sleeps
- port #1 tries for the 2nd time and succeeds
- ports #2-5 try for the 2nd time and sleeps
- port #2 tries for the 3rd time and succeeds
- ports #3-5 try for the 3rd time and sleeps
- port #3 tries for the 4th time and succeeds
- ports #4-5 try for the 4th time and sleeps
- port #4 tries for the 5th time and succeeds
- port #5 tries for the 5th time and sleeps
At this moment port #5 wasted all its five tries and failed to
initialize. Because there are only 5 (EM_MAX_RETRY) tries available
usually only five ports succeed to initialize. The sixth port and next
ones usually will fail.
If msleep() is used instead of ata_msleep() the first port succeeds to
initialize in the first try and next ones usually succeed to
initialize in the second try.
tj: updated comment
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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