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authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>2011-05-02 09:33:56 +0200
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2011-05-10 22:53:45 +0200
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firewire: optimize iso queueing by setting wake only after the last packet
When queueing iso packets, the run time is dominated by the two MMIO accesses that set the DMA context's wake bit. Because most drivers submit packets in batches, we can save much time by removing all but the last wakeup. The internal kernel API is changed to require a call to fw_iso_context_queue_flush() after a batch of queued packets. The user space API does not change, so one call to FW_CDEV_IOC_QUEUE_ISO must specify multiple packets to take advantage of this optimization. In my measurements, this patch reduces the time needed to queue fifty skip packets from userspace to one sixth on a 2.5 GHz CPU, or to one third at 800 MHz. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/firewire.h b/include/linux/firewire.h
index de90e1ff8488..c0fb405bb435 100644
--- a/include/linux/firewire.h
+++ b/include/linux/firewire.h
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ int fw_iso_context_queue(struct fw_iso_context *ctx,
struct fw_iso_packet *packet,
struct fw_iso_buffer *buffer,
unsigned long payload);
+void fw_iso_context_queue_flush(struct fw_iso_context *ctx);
int fw_iso_context_start(struct fw_iso_context *ctx,
int cycle, int sync, int tags);
int fw_iso_context_stop(struct fw_iso_context *ctx);