[PATCH] mtd: dataflash: replace msleep with usleep_range

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at bootlin.com
Thu Apr 26 11:03:48 PDT 2018


On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:26:26 +0200
Luca Ellero <luca.ellero at brickedbrain.com> wrote:

> Since msleep is based on jiffies, this 3 ms sleep becomes actually 20 ms.
> Worst of all, since this sleep is used in a loop when writing, a single page
> write (256 to 1024 bytes) causes 17 ms extra time.
> When writing large files (for example u-boot is usually 512 KB) this delay
> adds up to minutes.
> See Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt "Why not msleep for (1ms - 20ms)".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ellero <luca.ellero at brickedbrain.com>

Applied.

Thanks,

Boris

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c
> index aaaeaae..3a6f450 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static int dataflash_waitready(struct spi_device *spi)
>  		if (status & (1 << 7))	/* RDY/nBSY */
>  			return status;
>  
> -		msleep(3);
> +		usleep_range(3000, 4000);
>  	}
>  }
>  




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