Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:45:54 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/12] libata: use IRQ expecting |
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On 06/25/2010 03:44 AM, Tejun Heo wrote: > I still think calling unexpect_irq() from ata_qc_complete() is correct > as ata_qc_complete() is always a good indicator of completion events.
No, it's not. ata_qc_complete() is an indicator that _one_ completion event occurred, not _all_ completion events for that port.
Converting drivers to use ata_qc_complete_multiple() completely misses the point: ata_qc_complete_multiple() is doing exactly the same thing as those drivers: calling ata_qc_complete() in a loop.
ata_qc_complete() is -- as its name implies -- completing a single qc. Your patch introduces an unconditional controller-wide unexpect_irq() call. It's a layering violation.
You can trivially trace through ata_qc_complete_multiple() after patch #11 is applied, and see the result... for $N completion bits passed to ata_qc_complete_multiple(), you call unexpect_irq() expect_irq() in rapid succession $N times, once for each ata_qc_complete() call in the loop of ata_qc_complete_multiple(). For something that is not needed for modern SATA controllers.
The preferred solution would be something that only touches legacy controllers, namely:
*) create ata_port_complete(), with the implementation
ata_qc_complete() unexpect_irq()
*) then call ata_port_complete() in the legacy code that needs unexpect_irq()
We don't want to burden modern SATA drivers with the overhead of dealing with silly PATA/SATA1 legacy irq nastiness, particularly the ugliness of calling
unexpect_irq() + expect_irq()
for a number of NCQ commands, in a tight loop!
Jeff
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