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From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno  <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
To: sean.wang@mediatek.com, nbd@nbd.name, lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com
Cc: Soul.Huang@mediatek.com, YN.Chen@mediatek.com,
	Leon.Yen@mediatek.com, Eric-SY.Chang@mediatek.com,
	Deren.Wu@mediatek.com, km.lin@mediatek.com,
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	posh.sun@mediatek.com, ted.huang@mediatek.com,
	Stella.Chang@mediatek.com, Tom.Chou@mediatek.com,
	steve.lee@mediatek.com, jsiuda@google.com, frankgor@google.com,
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	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mt76: mt7921: reduce the mutex lock scope during reset
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 10:56:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b398e6c6-c120-049a-bfba-aaafa9763c72@collabora.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b10be44b0f968475268895b99864973d18a3b86e.1655944385.git.objelf@gmail.com>

Il 23/06/22 02:35, sean.wang@mediatek.com ha scritto:
> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
> 
> Reduce the mutex lock scope for reset to get rid of possible task hung
> e.g wpa_supplicant and to allow the user-space process to keep running
> during we need more retries to complete the reset.
> 

To actually, effectively, reduce the chance to get a hung task, and also
to improve the general responsiveness, I think that the best way would be
to manage the locking inside of the reset callback(s) for each dev/bus.

This is especially because some of these reset functions (like the SDIO one)
may end up waiting for more than *two seconds*.

However, I get that this proposal requires way more effort, and this commit
will anyway improve the situation as it is... so, you get my:

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>

> Suggested-by: YN Chen <YN.Chen@mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-23  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-23  0:35 [PATCH 1/2] mt76: mt7921: reduce log severity levels for informative messages sean.wang
2022-06-23  0:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mt76: mt7921: reduce the mutex lock scope during reset sean.wang
2022-06-23  8:56   ` AngeloGioacchino Del Regno [this message]
2022-06-23  8:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] mt76: mt7921: reduce log severity levels for informative messages AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
2022-06-29 17:26   ` Kalle Valo

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