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udelay: Lower the sleep vs delay threshold

By default, we busy-loop (a.k.a., "delay") for most delay values, and
only allow sleeping for large delays. But busy-looping is expensive, as
it wastes CPU cycles.

In a simple program that runs a bunch of samples of [1] over 1000
samples, I find that for 0.1 s (100000 us):

 64x2 AMD CPU (CONFIG_HZ=250 / CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y):
   min diff: 60 us
   max diff: 831 us
   mean diff: 135 us

 4+2 Mediatek MT8183 CPU (CONFIG_HZ=1000 / CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y /
                          sysctl kernel.timer_highres=1):
   min diff: 70 us
   max diff: 1556 us
   mean diff: 146 us

 4+2 Mediatek MT8183 CPU (CONFIG_HZ=1000 / CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y /
                          sysctl kernel.timer_highres=0):
   min diff: 94 us
   max diff: 7222 us
   mean diff: 1201 us

i.e., maximum 1.5% error, typically ~0.1% error with high resolution
timers. Max 7% error, typical 1% error with low resolution timers.

This seems reasonable.

[1] Stripped / pseudocode:

  clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, before);
  nanosleep({ .tv_nsec = usecs * 1000 }, NULL);
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, after);
  diff = abs((after - before) / 1000 - usecs));

Change-Id: Ifd4821c66c5564f7c975c08769a6742f645e9be0
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
---
M udelay.c
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/08/80808/1

diff --git a/udelay.c b/udelay.c
index 0005d39..c42de25 100644
--- a/udelay.c
+++ b/udelay.c
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@
 /* Precise delay. */
 void default_delay(unsigned int usecs)
 {
-	/* If the delay is >1 s, use internal_sleep because timing does not need to be so precise. */
-	if (usecs > 1000000) {
+	/* If the delay is >0.1 s, use internal_sleep because timing does not need to be so precise. */
+	if (usecs > 100000) {
 		internal_sleep(usecs);
 	} else if (use_clock_gettime) {
 		clock_usec_delay(usecs);

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