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authorAndy Walls <awalls@radix.net>2008-11-16 01:38:19 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2008-12-30 09:38:07 -0200
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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>
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