[PATCH] ipmi: kcs: Poll OBF briefly to reduce OBE latency

[Corey Minyard]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 09:42:57AM +1030, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> Hi Corey,
> 
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, at 00:17, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> > The ASPEED KCS devices don't provide a BMC-side interrupt for the host
> > reading the output data register (ODR). The act of the host reading ODR
> > clears the output buffer full (OBF) flag in the status register (STR),
> > informing the BMC it can transmit a subsequent byte.
> >
> > On the BMC side the KCS client must enable the OBE event *and* perform a
> > subsequent read of STR anyway to avoid races - the polling provides a
> > window for the host to read ODR if data was freshly written while
> > minimising BMC-side latency.
> 
> Just wondering whether you're happy to pick this one up? I haven't seen 
> it hit the IPMI tree yet.

Sorry.  It's in my tree for 6.2 right now.

I can't push it up to for-next until 6.1-rc1 comes out.

-corey

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew