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>
cx18: Move DVB buffer transfer handling from irq handler to work_queue thread.
In order to properly lock the epu2cpu mailbox for driver to CX23418 commands,
the DVB/TS buffer handling needs to be moved from the IRQ handler and IRQ
context to a work queue. This work_queue implmentation is strikingly similar
to the ivtv implementation - for better or worse.
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
I need this so I can better isolate my linux email from my
corporate email.
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Many thanks to Steve Toth from Hauppauge and Nattu Dakshinamurthy from
Conexant for their support. I am in particular thankful to Hauppauge
since without their help this driver would not exist. It should also
be noted that Steve did the work to get the DVB part up and running.
Thank you!
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: G. Andrew Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Andy Walls