Re: [PATCH] x86: poll waiting for I/OAT DMA channel status

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> For certain system configurations a 5 usec udelay before checking I/OAT DMA
> channel status is sometimes not sufficient, resulting in a false failure
> status and unnecessary freeing of channel resources.  Conversely, for many
> configurations 5 usec is longer than necessary.
>
> Loop for up to 20 usec waiting for successful status before failing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
> ___

Applied, but for future reference fix your scripts to use "---"
instead of "___" for the separator after the Signed-off-by otherwise
the diffstat information gets included in the changelog when apply the
patch with "git am".

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Dan
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