[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 2/2] console: usb: kbd: To improve TFTP booting performance

Jim Lin jilin at nvidia.com
Fri Jul 19 14:06:35 CEST 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 19:17 +0800, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Jim Lin,
> 
> In message <1374226576-13401-2-git-send-email-jilin at nvidia.com> you wrote:
> > TFTP booting is slow when a USB keyboard is installed and
> > stdin has usbkbd added.
> > This fix is to change Ctrl-C polling for USB keyboard to every second
> > when NET transfer is running.
> ...
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CMD_NET
> > +/* The period of time between two calls of usb_kbd_testc(). */
> > +static unsigned long kbd_testc_tms;
> > +#endif
> >  
> >  /* Generic keyboard event polling. */
> >  void usb_kbd_generic_poll(void)
> > @@ -366,6 +370,16 @@ static int usb_kbd_testc(void)
> >  	struct usb_device *usb_kbd_dev;
> >  	struct usb_kbd_pdata *data;
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CMD_NET
> > +	/*
> > +	 * If net_busy_flag is 1, NET transfer is running,
> > +	 * then we check key pressed every second to improve
> > +	 * TFTP booting performance.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (net_busy_flag && (get_timer(kbd_testc_tms) < CONFIG_SYS_HZ))
> > +		return 0;
> > +	kbd_testc_tms = get_timer(0);
> > +#endif
> 
> You did not comment on my remark about  kbd_testc_tms  being used
> basically with a random start value for each invocation of a network
> command.  The "every second" above is wrong.  The actual interval may
> be much shorter (even nearly zero, at least once), or longer.
Okay, I will check again.




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