Re: [PATCH 4/5] hwmon: (ina3221) Make sure data is ready after channel enabling

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:53:48PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> Hello Guenter,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:55:43AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > @@ -676,6 +701,13 @@ static int __maybe_unused ina3221_resume(struct device *dev)
> > >  	if (ret)
> > >  		return ret;
> > >  
> > > +	/* Make sure data conversion is finished */
> > > +	ret = ina3221_wait_for_data_if_active(ina);
> > 
> > This is quite expensive and would delay resume (and enable, for that matter).
> > A less expensive solution would be to save the enable time here and in
> > ina3221_write_enable(). ina3221_wait_for_data_if_active() can then be called
> > from read functions and would wait if not enough time has expired.
> > 
> > 	if (time_before(...))
> > 		usleep_range(missing wait time, missing_wait_time * 2);
> > 
> > or something like that. This could be done per channel or, to keep
> > things simple, just using a single time for all channels.
> 
> I was thinking something that'd fit one-shot mode too so decided
> to add a polling. But you are right. It does make sense to skip
> polling until an actual read happens, though it also feels a bit
> reasonable to me that putting a polling to the enabling routine.
> 
> The wait time would be sightly more complicated than the polling
> actually, as it needs to involve total conversion time which may
> vary depending on the number of enabled channels. I will see what
> would be safer and easier and apply that in v2.
> 
It isn't that complex; we have done it in other drivers. It is less
costly and has less overhead than extra i2c read operation(s).

Thanks,
Guenter