[PATCH 1/2] serial: amba-pl011: use cpu_relax when polling registers
Peter Hurley
peter at hurleysoftware.com
Thu Nov 5 17:14:23 PST 2015
On 11/03/2015 10:01 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Busy loops that poll on a register should call cpu_relax(). On some
> architectures, it can lower CPU power consumption or yield to a
> hyperthreaded twin processor. It also serves as a compiler barrier,
> so it can replace barrier() calls.
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com>
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