Re: [PATCH 3/4] tty: omap-serial: use threaded interrupt handler

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

On 09/15/2014 10:00 AM, Frans Klaver wrote:
> At 3.6Mbaud, with slightly over 2Mbit/s data coming in, we see 1600 uart
> rx buffer overflows within 30 seconds. Threading the interrupt handling reduces
> this to about 170 overflows in 10 minutes.

Why is the threadirqs kernel boot option not sufficient?
Or conversely, shouldn't this be selectable?

Regards,
Peter Hurley

PS - To overflow the 64 byte RX FIFO at those data rates means interrupt
latency in excess of 250us?

> In practice this therefore reduces the need for hardware flow control,
> meaning the sending side doesn't have to buffer as much either.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frans Klaver <frans.klaver@xsens.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> index 7d3f557..398139a 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c
> @@ -575,6 +575,20 @@ static void serial_omap_rdi(struct uart_omap_port *up, unsigned int lsr)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * serial_omap_fast_irq() - schedule interrupt handling
> + */
> +static irqreturn_t serial_omap_fast_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
> +{
> +	struct uart_omap_port *up = dev_id;
> +	unsigned int iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR);
> +
> +	if (iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT)
> +		return IRQ_NONE;
> +
> +	return IRQ_WAKE_THREAD;
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * serial_omap_irq() - This handles the interrupt from one port
>   * @irq: uart port irq number
>   * @dev_id: uart port info
> @@ -584,7 +598,6 @@ static irqreturn_t serial_omap_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	struct uart_omap_port *up = dev_id;
>  	unsigned int iir, lsr;
>  	unsigned int type;
> -	irqreturn_t ret = IRQ_NONE;
>  	int max_count = 256;
>  
>  	spin_lock(&up->port.lock);
> @@ -595,7 +608,6 @@ static irqreturn_t serial_omap_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  		if (iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT)
>  			break;
>  
> -		ret = IRQ_HANDLED;
>  		lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
>  
>  		/* extract IRQ type from IIR register */
> @@ -634,7 +646,7 @@ static irqreturn_t serial_omap_irq(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	pm_runtime_put_autosuspend(up->dev);
>  	up->port_activity = jiffies;
>  
> -	return ret;
> +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }
>  
>  static unsigned int serial_omap_tx_empty(struct uart_port *port)
> @@ -731,15 +743,19 @@ static int serial_omap_startup(struct uart_port *port)
>  	/*
>  	 * Allocate the IRQ
>  	 */
> -	retval = request_irq(up->port.irq, serial_omap_irq, up->port.irqflags,
> -				up->name, up);
> +	retval = request_threaded_irq(up->port.irq, serial_omap_fast_irq,
> +						serial_omap_irq,
> +						IRQF_ONESHOT | up->port.irqflags,
> +						up->name, up);
>  	if (retval)
>  		return retval;
>  
>  	/* Optional wake-up IRQ */
>  	if (up->wakeirq) {
> -		retval = request_irq(up->wakeirq, serial_omap_irq,
> -				     up->port.irqflags, up->name, up);
> +		retval = request_threaded_irq(up->wakeirq, serial_omap_fast_irq,
> +						serial_omap_irq,
> +						IRQF_ONESHOT | up->port.irqflags,
> +						up->name, up);
>  		if (retval) {
>  			free_irq(up->port.irq, up);
>  			return retval;
>