From e9b5a9825f6b02a9cf86697bcffafd3d7898f9f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manfred Schlaegl Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:25:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] serial: imx: reduce irq-latency after rx overflow To prevent problems with interrupt latency, and due to the fact, that the error will be counted anyway (icount.overrun), the dev_err is simply removed. Background: If an rx-fifo overflow occurs a dev_err message was called in interrupt context. Since dev_err messages are written to console in a synchronous way (unbuffered), and console may be a serial terminal, this leads to a highly increased interrupt-latency (several milliseconds). As a result of the high latency more rx-fifo overflows will happen, and therefore a feedback loop of errors is created. Signed-off-by: Manfred Schlaegl Acked-By: Alexander Stein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed