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From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 05:17:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55163959.8080101@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2926619.fiYHPz1IBk@wasted.cogentembedded.com>

Hi,

On 28.03.2015 00:13, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> +	spinlock_t lock;		/* Register access lock */

Do you really need one huge lock for all register accesses? Maybe you
should rethink which registers can actually be accessed concurrently and
implement some finer grained locking.

Regards,
Lino

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From: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	galak@codeaurora.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 06:17:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55163959.8080101@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2926619.fiYHPz1IBk@wasted.cogentembedded.com>

Hi,

On 28.03.2015 00:13, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

> +	spinlock_t lock;		/* Register access lock */

Do you really need one huge lock for all register accesses? Maybe you
should rethink which registers can actually be accessed concurrently and
implement some finer grained locking.

Regards,
Lino

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-28  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27 23:13 [PATCH resend] Renesas Ethernet AVB driver Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-27 23:13 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28  5:17 ` Lino Sanfilippo [this message]
2015-03-28  5:17   ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-03-28  8:36   ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28  8:36     ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 13:55   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28 13:55     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-28  8:28 ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28  8:28   ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-28 18:26   ` David Miller
2015-03-28 18:26     ` David Miller
2015-03-30 22:51   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-30 22:51     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31  6:43     ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31  6:43       ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31  9:01       ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31  9:01         ` Richard Cochran
2015-03-31 15:38       ` David Miller
2015-03-31 15:38         ` David Miller
2015-03-31 17:40         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31 17:40           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-31 17:48           ` David Miller
2015-03-31 17:48             ` David Miller
2015-04-03  6:27             ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-03  6:27               ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-03  6:27               ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-12 22:03               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-12 22:03                 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-09 13:11       ` Bjørn Mork
2015-04-09 13:11         ` Bjørn Mork
2015-04-09 17:57         ` David Miller
2015-04-09 17:57           ` David Miller
2015-04-13 20:23     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 20:23       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14  5:27       ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14  5:27         ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 10:14         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 10:14           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 16:30           ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 16:30             ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 16:58             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 16:58               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-14 18:30               ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-14 18:30                 ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-15  1:01                 ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15  1:01                   ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15  1:01                   ` masaru.nagai.vx
2015-04-15  5:31                   ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-15  5:31                     ` Richard Cochran
2015-04-02 13:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-02 13:56   ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 20:34   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 20:34     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-04-13 22:13     ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:13       ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:31       ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 22:31         ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 22:53         ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 22:53           ` Lino Sanfilippo
2015-04-13 23:08           ` Ben Hutchings
2015-04-13 23:08             ` Ben Hutchings

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