[PATCH 2/2] mailbox: Don't unnecessarily re-arm the polling timer

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Thu Oct 30 2014 - 16:01:17 EST


poll_txdone() will unconditionally re-arm the polling timer if there was
an active request, even if the active request completed and no other
requests were submitted. This is fixed by:
- only re-arming the timer if the controller reported that the current
transmission has not completed, and,
- moving the call to poll_txdone() into msg_submit() so that the
controller gets polled (and the timer re-armed, if necessary) whenever
a new message is submitted.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
index 5008028..26f74ad 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/mailbox.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
static LIST_HEAD(mbox_cons);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(con_mutex);

+static void poll_txdone(unsigned long data);
+
static int add_to_rbuf(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *mssg)
{
int idx;
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ static void msg_submit(struct mbox_chan *chan)
unsigned count, idx;
unsigned long flags;
void *data;
- int err;
+ int err = -EBUSY;

spin_lock_irqsave(&chan->lock, flags);

@@ -84,6 +86,9 @@ static void msg_submit(struct mbox_chan *chan)
}
exit:
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
+
+ if (!err && chan->txdone_method == TXDONE_BY_POLL)
+ poll_txdone((unsigned long)chan->mbox);
}

static void tx_tick(struct mbox_chan *chan, int r)
@@ -117,10 +122,11 @@ static void poll_txdone(unsigned long data)
struct mbox_chan *chan = &mbox->chans[i];

if (chan->active_req && chan->cl) {
- resched = true;
txdone = chan->mbox->ops->last_tx_done(chan);
if (txdone)
tx_tick(chan, 0);
+ else
+ resched = true;
}
}

@@ -252,9 +258,6 @@ int mbox_send_message(struct mbox_chan *chan, void *mssg)

msg_submit(chan);

- if (chan->txdone_method == TXDONE_BY_POLL)
- poll_txdone((unsigned long)chan->mbox);
-
if (chan->cl->tx_block && chan->active_req) {
unsigned long wait;
int ret;
--
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5

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