On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 08:05:16AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > Am 04.07.2016 um 23:06 schrieb Sean Young: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:51:50PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > >> Am 04.07.2016 um 22:13 schrieb Sean Young: > >>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:29:41PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > >>>> This chip has a 32 byte HW FIFO only. Therefore the default fifo size > >>>> of 512 raw events is not needed and can be significantly decreased. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> > >>> > >>> The 32 byte hardware queue is read from an interrupt handler and added > >>> to the kfifo. The kfifo is read by the decoders in a seperate kthread > >>> (in ir_raw_event_thread). If we have a long IR (e.g. nec which has > >>> 66 edges) and the kthread is not scheduled in time (e.g. high load), will > >>> we not end up with an overflow in the kfifo and unable to decode it? > >>> > >> The interrupt handler is triggered latest when 24 bytes have been read. > >> (at least that's how the chip gets configured at the moment) > >> This gives the decoder thread at least 8 bytes time to process the > >> kfifo. This should be sufficient even under high load. > > > > No, it gives the interrupt handler at least 8 bytes time to read the > > hardware fifo (and add it to the kfifo). There are no guarantees about > > when the decoder kthread runs (which reads the kfifo). > > > > To put it another way, in the nuvoton interrupt handler, you call > > ir_raw_event_handle() which does a wake_up_process(). That puts the > > decoder process (it has a pid) in a runnable state and it will run at > > some future time. > > > You're right, that's the more precise description. > These 8 bytes time give the decoder process few msec's to start. > (Not sure wheter there's any protocol resulting in much shorter time.) > At least during my tests this was always sufficient.
So worst case scenario with NEC IR (I have not checked all ir protocols). 1. 32 bytes of IR read from hardware fifo. 2. IR in the middle of series of 1s (two edges, 1.125ms each) 3. After 13.5ms interrupt is triggered again as 12 new bits generated 24 edges 4. Decoder thread has not run and emptied the fifo. 5. kfifo overflow and IR cannot be decoded; key lost > However if you think 32 bytes might be too small as kfifo size I'd > also be fine with increasing it. The result should still be better > than the default size of 512. So this depends on how many edges an remote could possible generate and how often the kthread will be scheduled to read it. For example I have a remote which repeats the entire nec code after 20ms if you hold a button down. That's about 800 edges per second, so with a kfifo of 512 the kthread would have to be scheduled twice a second. I think we should stick to the default of 512. Sean -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
