Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers: libata-core: Use usleep_range() instead of msleep() for short sleeps (<20 ms)

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 10:36:25 EST


On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:18:52PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> From: Anil Veliyankara Madam <aveliyan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since msleep() may sleep longer than intended time for values less
> than 20ms, this patch allows the use of usleep_range for waits less
> that 20ms. usleep_range is a finer precision implementation of
> msleep and is designed to be a drop-in replacement for udelay
> where a precise sleep/busy-wait is unnecessary.
>
> More details can be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/250
> and in Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt.
>
> This change has been done to improve the performace in PIO6 mode
> which is used by viking flash.
>
> Cc: xe-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Anil Veliyankara Madam <aveliyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shikha Jain <shikjain@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to libata/for-4.5.

Thanks.

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tejun