On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Hartmut wrote:
This change set is wrong. The affected functions cannot be called from
an interrupt context, because they may process large buffers. In this
case, interrupts are disabled for a long time. Functions, like
dvb_dmx_swfilter_packets(), could be called only from a tasklet.
This change set does hide some strong design bugs in dm1105.c and
au0828-dvb.c.
Please revert this change set and do fix the bugs in dm1105.c and
au0828-dvb.c (and other files).
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Oliver Endriss wrote:
This changeset _must_ be reverted! It breaks all kernels since 2.6.27
for applications which use DVB and require a low interrupt latency.
It is a very bad idea to call the demuxer to process data buffers with
interrupts disabled!
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Trent Piepho wrote:
I agree, this is bad. The demuxer is far too much work to be done with
IRQs off. IMHO, even doing it under a spin-lock is excessive. It should
be a mutex. Drivers should use a work-queue to feed the demuxer.
Thank you for testing this changeset and discovering the issues on it.
Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Hartmut <e9hack@googlemail.com>
Cc: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
Cc: Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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