[PATCH 4/7] omap:mailbox-send message in process context

Hari Kanigeri h-kanigeri2 at ti.com
Thu Oct 14 22:13:25 EDT 2010


Schedule the Tasklet to send only when mailbox fifo is full, else
send the message in the Process context. This would avoid
needless scheduling of Tasklet for every message transfer

Signed-off-by: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2 at ti.com>
---
 arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
index ed960c1..a4170c7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
@@ -92,20 +92,25 @@ int omap_mbox_msg_send(struct omap_mbox *mbox, mbox_msg_t msg)
 	struct omap_mbox_queue *mq = mbox->txq;
 	int ret = 0, len;
 
-	spin_lock(&mq->lock);
+	spin_lock_bh(&mq->lock);
 
 	if (kfifo_avail(&mq->fifo) < sizeof(msg)) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (!__mbox_poll_for_space(mbox)) {
+		mbox_fifo_write(mbox, msg);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	len = kfifo_in(&mq->fifo, (unsigned char *)&msg, sizeof(msg));
 	WARN_ON(len != sizeof(msg));
 
 	tasklet_schedule(&mbox->txq->tasklet);
 
 out:
-	spin_unlock(&mq->lock);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&mq->lock);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(omap_mbox_msg_send);
-- 
1.7.0




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