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authorRob Clark <rob@ti.com>2010-01-04 19:22:03 +0530
committerTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2010-02-23 15:29:22 -0800
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omap2/3/4: mailbox: use dedicated work queue for handling mailbox rx interrupt
keventd_wq is a shared work-queue, and should not be used when we need fast deterministic response. Instead mailbox driver should use it's own private work-queue, with it's own thread, to ensure that handling of RX interrupts are not delayed by other drivers. The tasklet is still used for transmission of mbox messages. Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <rob@ti.com> Signed-off-by: C A Subramaniam <subramaniam.ca@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com> Acked-by: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
index 8e90633e4cb9..4229cec53140 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <plat/mailbox.h>
+static struct workqueue_struct *mboxd;
static struct omap_mbox *mboxes;
static DEFINE_RWLOCK(mboxes_lock);
@@ -188,7 +189,7 @@ static void __mbox_rx_interrupt(struct omap_mbox *mbox)
/* no more messages in the fifo. clear IRQ source. */
ack_mbox_irq(mbox, IRQ_RX);
nomem:
- schedule_work(&mbox->rxq->work);
+ queue_work(mboxd, &mbox->rxq->work);
}
static irqreturn_t mbox_interrupt(int irq, void *p)
@@ -401,12 +402,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(omap_mbox_unregister);
static int __init omap_mbox_init(void)
{
+ mboxd = create_workqueue("mboxd");
+ if (!mboxd)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
return 0;
}
module_init(omap_mbox_init);
static void __exit omap_mbox_exit(void)
{
+ destroy_workqueue(mboxd);
}
module_exit(omap_mbox_exit);