[PATCH 1/6] firedtv: shrink buffer pointer table

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Nov 18 2009 - 14:01:20 EST


Cache only addresses of whole pages, not of each buffer chunk. Besides,
page addresses can be obtained by page_address() instead of kmap() since
they were allocated in lowmem.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fw.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.32-rc7/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.32-rc7.orig/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
+++ linux-2.6.32-rc7/drivers/media/dvb/firewire/firedtv-fw.c
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/firewire.h>
#include <linux/firewire-constants.h>
-#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ struct firedtv_receive_context {
struct fw_iso_buffer buffer;
int interrupt_packet;
int current_packet;
- char *packets[N_PACKETS];
+ char *pages[N_PAGES];
};

static int queue_iso(struct firedtv_receive_context *ctx, int index)
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static void handle_iso(struct fw_iso_con
struct firedtv *fdtv = data;
struct firedtv_receive_context *ctx = fdtv->backend_data;
__be32 *h, *h_end;
- int i = ctx->current_packet, length, err;
+ int length, err, i = ctx->current_packet;
char *p, *p_end;

for (h = header, h_end = h + header_length / 4; h < h_end; h++) {
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ static void handle_iso(struct fw_iso_con
length = MAX_PACKET_SIZE;
}

- p = ctx->packets[i];
+ p = ctx->pages[i / PACKETS_PER_PAGE]
+ + (i % PACKETS_PER_PAGE) * MAX_PACKET_SIZE;
p_end = p + length;

for (p += CIP_HEADER_SIZE + MPEG2_TS_HEADER_SIZE; p < p_end;
@@ -130,8 +131,7 @@ static int start_iso(struct firedtv *fdt
{
struct firedtv_receive_context *ctx;
struct fw_device *device = device_of(fdtv);
- char *p;
- int i, j, k, err;
+ int i, err;

ctx = kmalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctx)
@@ -153,11 +153,8 @@ static int start_iso(struct firedtv *fdt
ctx->interrupt_packet = 1;
ctx->current_packet = 0;

- for (i = 0, k = 0; k < N_PAGES; k++) {
- p = kmap(ctx->buffer.pages[k]);
- for (j = 0; j < PACKETS_PER_PAGE && i < N_PACKETS; j++, i++)
- ctx->packets[i] = p + j * MAX_PACKET_SIZE;
- }
+ for (i = 0; i < N_PAGES; i++)
+ ctx->pages[i] = page_address(ctx->buffer.pages[i]);

for (i = 0; i < N_PACKETS; i++) {
err = queue_iso(ctx, i);

--
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--= =-== =--=-
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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