Re: [PATCH v2 08/11] spi: cadence-qspi: add early busywait to cqspi_wait_for_bit()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Apr 08 2024 - 10:16:53 EST


On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 05:02:18PM +0200, Théo Lebrun wrote:

> If the CQSPI_BUSYWAIT_EARLY quirk flag is on, call
> readl_relaxed_poll_timeout() with no sleep at the start of
> cqspi_wait_for_bit(). If its short timeout expires, a sleeping
> readl_relaxed_poll_timeout() call takes the relay.
>
> Behavior is hidden behind a quirk flag to keep the previous behavior the
> same on all platforms.
>
> The reason is to avoid hrtimer interrupts on the system. All read
> operations take less than 100µs.

Why would this be platform specific, this seems like a very standard
optimisation technique?

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