History log of /drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-dvb.h
Revision Date Author Comments
ee2d64f5ccc71b5c5191e92ea91a12b65f9ca060 16-Nov-2008 Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> 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>
1d6782bda5c1fb2bca44af50647b45427d8ef4ec 05-Nov-2008 Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> V4L/DVB (9516): cx18: Move DVB buffer transfer handling from irq handler to work_queue

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>
6d8976164dd7d10d25fe940b8546265f60ad52cd 03-Sep-2008 Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com> V4L/DVB (8805): Steven Toth email address change

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>
1c1e45d17b663d4749af456ab7c2fc1f36405ef8 29-Apr-2008 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> V4L/DVB (7786): cx18: new driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG encoder chip

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>