Cedric Le Goater <c...@fr.ibm.com> writes: > The sensor service in OPAL only handles one FSP request at a time and > returns OPAL_BUSY if one is already in progress. The lock covers this case > but we could also remove it return EBUSY to the driver or even retry the > call. That might be dangerous though.
Retrying the call should be okay. Just because FSP wants to do things serially doesn't mean non-FSP does :) > Changing OPAL to handle simultaneously multiple requests does not seem really > necessary, it won't speed up the communication with the FSP and that is the > main bottleneck. Only on FSP systems though, and all of the OpenPower machines don't have FSPs :) _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
