Commit 8b67f8c1 authored by Milton Miller's avatar Milton Miller Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] hvc_console: Dont always kick the poll thread in interrupt

Have the hvc console code try to pull characters immediately when receiving an
interrupt, and kick the poll thread only if the immediate poll indicates it
needed a call back to do more work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 6f24808e
......@@ -254,12 +254,16 @@ static void hvc_kick(void)
wake_up_process(hvc_task);
}
static int hvc_poll(struct hvc_struct *hp);
/*
* NOTE: This API isn't used if the console adapter doesn't support interrupts.
* In this case the console is poll driven.
*/
static irqreturn_t hvc_handle_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_instance, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* if hvc_poll request a repoll, then kick the hvcd thread */
if (hvc_poll(dev_instance))
hvc_kick();
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
......@@ -598,8 +602,8 @@ static int hvc_poll(struct hvc_struct *hp)
/*
* Account for the total amount read in one loop, and if above
* 64 bytes, we do a quick schedule loop to let the tty grok the
* data and eventually throttle us.
* 64 bytes, we do a quick schedule loop to let the tty grok
* the data and eventually throttle us.
*/
read_total += n;
if (read_total >= 64) {
......
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