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From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: add xtensa xtfpga I2S interface and
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:39:13 +0100
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On 10/28/2014 05:04 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 04:58:24PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 10/27/2014 08:07 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
>
>>> +	if (tx_active) {
>>> +		if (i2s->tx_fifo_high < 256)
>>> +			xtfpga_i2s_refill_fifo(i2s);
>>> +		else
>>> +			tasklet_hi_schedule(&i2s->refill_fifo);
>
>> Maybe use threaded IRQs instead of IRQ + tasklet.
>
> Is that going to play nicely with the fact that the interrupt can be
> shared and the desire to (AFAICT) do NAPI style stuff with the interrupt
> disabled for long periods?
>

Threaded interrupts got support for interrupt sharing a while ago, so I 
guess yes. I think it will even work better than the tasklet approach. You 
can configure the IRQ to disable itself as long as the thread is running.

- Lars