Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> > If an RX interrupt appears it it necessary to read out up to 14 SJA1000
> > regs and write one register before a CAN message can be distributed to
> > the sockets. Do you really suggest that the reading of the SJA1000
> > registers should be interruptible? One step towards chaos, I would say.
>
> Maybe it would make sense to handle the message reception in a thread (a
> kind of bottom half), and to only disable the CAN irq when doing the
> reception work. This way, the system would still be able to handle other
> events while the can reception takes place.

The SJA1000 interrupt handler consists of several parts:
1. Read out the interrupt register to determine which kind of CAN interrupt 
raised
2. Check for the different kind of interrupts (error, TX, RX)
3. If RX:
3a. read out HW registers
3b. Distribute to sockets

It seems that an extended amount of time is spent for 3a. If we do this in a 
bottom-half we have to deal with things like priority inversion and under 
certain circumstances with lost CAN messages due to a full HW RX buffer of 
the CAN controller.

-- 
Sebastian

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