[PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Queue in scmi layer for mailbox implementation

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Oct 7 06:04:10 PDT 2024


On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 03:12:57PM -0700, Justin Chen wrote:
> The mailbox layer has its own queue. However this confuses the per
> message timeouts since the clock starts ticking the moment the messages
> get queued up. So all messages in the queue have there timeout clocks
> ticking instead of only the message inflight. To fix this, lets move the
> queue back into the SCMI layer.
>

I think this has come up in the past. We have avoided adding addition
locking here as the mailbox layer takes care of it. Has anything changed
recently ?

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Regards,
Sudeep



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