hwmon: applesmc: lighter wait mechanism, drastic improvement
The read fail ratio is sensitive to the delay between the first byte written and the first byte read; apparently the sensors cannot be rushed. Increasing the minimum wait time, without changing the total wait time, improves the fail ratio from a 8% chance that any of the sensors fails in one read, down to 0.4%, on a Macbook Air. On a Macbook Pro 3,1, the effect is even more apparent. By reducing the number of status polls, the ratio is further improved to below 0.1%. Finally, increasing the total wait time brings the fail ratio down to virtually zero. Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Tested-by: Bob McElrath <bob@mcelrath.org> Cc: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch> Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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