> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menon, Nishanth 
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:48 PM
> To: G, Manjunath Kondaiah; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Imberton Guilhem; Mike Chan; Nayak, Rajendra; Roger 
> Quadros; Kalle Jokiniemi; Reddy, Teerth; Kevin Hilman; Paul 
> Walmsley; Hogander Jouni
> Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2 v3] OMAP3: PM: SR: SmartReflex Refactor Rev4.0
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:40 AM
> > To: Menon, Nishanth; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Imberton Guilhem; Mike Chan; Nayak, Rajendra; Roger 
> Quadros; Kalle
> > Jokiniemi; Reddy, Teerth; Kevin Hilman; Paul Walmsley; 
> Hogander Jouni
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2 v3] OMAP3: PM: SR: SmartReflex 
> Refactor Rev4.0
> > 
> > 
> > As per your comments for other patches when ever there is 
> udelay usage,
> > cpu_relax is the better option. I see there are lot of 
> udelay(...) calls
> > used in this patch. Why can't you use cpu_relax() or schedule().
> > Any specific reason?
> > 
> Don’t really want to do cpu_relax in irq_locked context.. if 
> you look at the code flow, the call from cpu_idle is in 
> irq_locked.. Further this delay is part of bring up form 
> saved context where there is nothing else scheduled + we 
> don’t want anything else scheduled (and causing a change in 
> scheduling decision). So unfortunately, unlike standard 
> drivers, this cannot use the same reasoning.
> 

NAK. My understanding is that, SR functions will be called during voltage 
scaling also. Voltage scaling will happen in non IRQ locked context.

Please clarify if I am wrong.

-Manjunath

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