V4L/DVB (9720): cx18: Major rewrite of interrupt handling for incoming mailbox processing
authorAndy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:38:19 +0000 (01:38 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:38:07 +0000 (09:38 -0200)
commitee2d64f5ccc71b5c5191e92ea91a12b65f9ca060
tree0f01253a1e517f9c1f705901d873ca25bb2c872f
parentba38ee8ebe4a42ce2213802152b0b86a95dc109f
V4L/DVB (9720): cx18: Major rewrite of interrupt handling for incoming mailbox processing

A major rewrite of interrupt handling for incoming mailbox processing, to split
the timing critical steps from the the deferrable steps as the sending XPU on
the CX23418 will time out and overwrite our incoming mailboxes rather quickly.
Setup a pool of work "order forms" for the irq handler to send jobs to the new
work handler routine which uses the kernel default work queue to do the
deferrable work.  Started optimizing some of the cx18-io calls as they are now
the low hanging fruit for recoving microseconds back from the timeline.
Future optimizations will get rid of mmio read retries, mmio stats logging, and
combine smaller functions in the irq path into the larger ones to save ~2 us
each.

Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
16 files changed:
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-dvb.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-dvb.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-firmware.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-io.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-io.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-irq.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-irq.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-mailbox.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-mailbox.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-queue.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-queue.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-scb.h
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-streams.c
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-streams.h