Re: capture_mem limitations in OMAP ISP

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Michael,

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 11:46:33 Michael Jones wrote:
> Hi Laurent & co.,
> 
> I'm looking at the memory limitations in the omap3isp driver. 'struct
> isp_video' contains member 'capture_mem', which is set separately for each
> of our v4l2 video device nodes. The CCDC, for example, has capture_mem =
> 4096 * 4096 * 3 = 48MB, while the previewer and resizer each have twice
> that. Where do these numbers come from?

That's mostly historical. When developing the driver for the N900 we set a 
limit to avoid putting too much pressure on the system memory, and 3x8MP 
buffers was considered to be enough.

We could raise the limit, remove it completely, or implement a policy 
mechanism to let a privileged userspace application specify limits. The later 
might be interesting as a core V4L2 mechanism.

> Is the CCDC incapable of DMA'ing more than 48MB into memory? I know that
> ISP_VIDEO_MAX_BUFFERS also limits the # of buffers, but I assume this is
> basically an arbitrary number so we can have a finite array of
> isp_video_buffer's. The 48MB, on the other hand, looks like it might have a
> good reason.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart