linux/drivers
Pieter Palmers cc9429bcb6 ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle
As it seems, some host controllers have issues that can cause them to
skip cycles now and then when using large packets. I suspect that this
is due to DMA not succeeding in time. If the transmit fifo can't contain
more than one packet (big packets), the DMA should provide a new packet
each cycle (125us). I am under the impression that my current PCI
express test system can't guarantee this.

In any case, the patch tries to provide a workaround as follows:
The DMA program descriptors are modified such that when an error occurs,
the DMA engine retries the descriptor the next cycle instead of
stalling. This way no data is lost. The side effect of this is that
packets are sent with one cycle delay. This however might not be that
much of a problem for certain protocols (e.g. AM824). If they use
padding packets for e.g. rate matching they can drop one of those to
resync the streams.

The amount of skips between two userspace wakeups is counted. This
number is then propagated to userspace through the upper 16 bits of the
'dropped' parameter. This allows unmodified userspace applications due
to the following:
1) libraw simply passes this dropped parameter to the user application
2) the meaning of the dropped parameter is: if it's nonzero, something
bad has happened. The actual value of the parameter at this moment does
not have a specific meaning.

A libraw client can then retrieve the number of skipped cycles and
account for them if needed.

Signed-off-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
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acorn/char
acpi acpi: bus: check once more for an empty list after locking it 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
amba
ata [libata] make ali_atapi_dma static 2008-04-12 00:16:49 -04:00
atm [ATM] drivers/atm/iphase.c: compilation warning fix 2008-04-02 00:03:00 -07:00
auxdisplay
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block cciss: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_init_table' 2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
bluetooth
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char fix IS_I9XX macro in i915 DRM driver 2008-04-06 16:10:40 -07:00
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crypto drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c trivial endianness annotations 2008-03-30 14:20:24 -07:00
dca
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dma [POWERPC] fsldma: Use compatiable binding as spec 2008-03-31 11:45:41 -05:00
edac
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firewire firewire: cleanups 2008-04-18 17:55:37 +02:00
firmware ipmi: change device node ordering to reflect probe order 2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
gpio
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i2c i2c-tiny-usb: New VID/PID pair 2008-04-11 12:07:05 +02:00
ide it821x: do not describe noraid parameter with its value 2008-04-17 01:14:33 +02:00
ieee1394 ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle 2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
infiniband trivial endianness annotations: infiniband core 2008-03-30 14:20:24 -07:00
input Input: appletouch - add product IDs for the 4th generation MacBooks 2008-04-02 10:14:29 -04:00
isdn [ISDN]: Do not validate ISDN net device address prior to interface-up 2008-04-13 22:44:20 -07:00
leds leds: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
lguest misc __user misannotations (pointless casts to long) 2008-03-30 14:20:23 -07:00
macintosh
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md md: close a livelock window in handle_parity_checks5 2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
media pvrusb2: fix broken build due to patch order dependency 2008-04-07 19:14:34 -07:00
memstick
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mfd mfd/asic3: ioread/iowrite take pointer, not unsigned long 2008-03-30 14:20:24 -07:00
misc misc: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
mmc mmc: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
mtd mtd/chips: add missing set_current_state() to cfi_{amdstd,staa}_sync() 2008-04-08 18:25:53 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-16 07:44:27 -07:00
nubus
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parisc
parport parport_pc: make sure to release IO ports after probing for IT87XX 2008-04-04 14:30:31 -07:00
pci
pcmcia pcmcia: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
pnp
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ps3
rapidio
rtc rtc: fix the error in the function of cmos_set_alarm 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
s390
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scsi scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock 2008-04-06 16:10:08 -07:00
serial serial: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
sh
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spi spi: spi_s3c24xx must initialize num_chipselect 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
ssb ssb: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing 2008-04-15 15:04:35 -04:00
tc
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thermal acpi thermal trip points increased to 12 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
uio
usb USB: remove broken usb-serial num_endpoints check 2008-04-15 22:30:53 -07:00
video fbdev: fix /proc/fb oops after module removal 2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
virtio virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON. 2008-04-07 13:14:22 -07:00
w1
watchdog watchdog: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug 2008-04-11 08:06:44 -07:00
xen xen: fix grant table bug 2008-04-04 18:36:46 +02:00
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