[PATCH v4 11/12] [RFC] firmware: arm_scmi: Add sync_cmds_atomic_replies transport flag

[Jim Quinlan]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:38 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/24/2021 3:59 PM, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > A flag is added to let the transport signal the core that its handling of
> > synchronous command messages implies that, after .send_message has returned
> > successfully, the requested command can be assumed to be fully and
> > completely executed on SCMI platform side so that any possible response
> > value is already immediately available to be retrieved by a .fetch_reponse:
> > in other words the polling phase can be skipped in such a case and the
> > response values accessed straight away.
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> > Note that all of the above applies only when polling mode of operation was
> > selected by the core: if instead a completion IRQ was found to be available
> > the normal response processing path based on completions will still be
> > followed.
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> This might actually have to be settable on a per-message basis ideally
> since we may be transporting short lived SCMI messages for which the
> completion can be done at SMC time, and long lived SCMI messages (e.g.:
> involving a voltage change) for which we would prefer a completion
> interrupt. Jim, what do you think?
Even if the SCMI main driver could be configured this way in an
elegant manner, I'm not sure that there is a clean way of specifying
this  attribute on a per-message basis.  Certainly we could do this
with our own protocols, but  many of our "long lived" messages are the
Perf protocol's set_level command.  At any rate, let me give it some
thought.

Regards,
Jim
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> Florian
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