Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] atmel_serial: Cleanups, irq handler splitup & DMA

["Remy Bohmer" <linux@bohmer.net>]

> > but I noticed that I sometimes get an input overrun (ttyS0: 1
> > input overrun(s) ) during stress conditions.
> > This is something I did not notice before, maybe it was already there,
> > or has something changed in this area that it is now more sensitive
> > for this?
> Hmm...is this with or without DMA?

DBGU is without DMA.

> If it's without DMA, something very strange is going on -- the non-DMA
> RX code is almost the only thing left in the hardirq handler, so I
> would really expect overruns to be much less likely to occur now than
> before...

As mentioned, maybe it was already there, but I did not run into it
earlier. I have to figure that out. But, at 115200 and a 1 byte
receive-'fifo' on DBGU, and still interrupt locks somewhere in the
tree up to 300us, it is a simple calculation that we can run into
overrun conditions...
Notice that without these interrupt handler splitup, it was much, much
much worse...

So, for me it is not a big deal, because it is just a terminal, and
with my shaky fingers I usually do not type that fast ;-))

Remy

Kind Regards,

Remy