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Date:   Mon, 5 Mar 2018 12:56:33 +0200
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tpm: reduce poll sleep time between send() and
 recv() in tpm_transmit()
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 12:26:35AM +0530, Nayna Jain wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/01/2018 02:52 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 02:18:27PM -0500, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > > In tpm_transmit, after send(), the code checks for status in a loop
> > Maybe cutting hairs now but please just use the actual function name
> > instead of send(). Just makes the commit log more useful asset.
> Sure, will do.
> > 
> > > -		tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT);
> > > +		tpm_msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT_POLL);
> > What about just calling schedule()?
> I'm not sure what you mean by "schedule()".? Are you suggesting instead of
> using usleep_range(),? using something with an even finer grain construct?
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> ???? - Nayna

kernel/sched/core.c

/Jarkko