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authorClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>2010-02-08 08:30:03 +0100
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2010-02-14 15:10:41 +0100
commit7f51a100bba517196ac4bdf29408d20ee1c771e8 (patch)
tree6e1af632f6a3f5ffd635a07c181125609297977a /drivers
parent110f82d7a2e0ff5a17617a9672f1ccb7e44bc0c6 (diff)
firewire: ohci: retransmit isochronous transmit packets on cycle loss
In isochronous transmit DMA descriptors, link the skip address pointer back to the descriptor itself. When a cycle is lost, the controller will send the packet in the next cycle, instead of terminating the entire DMA program. There are two reasons for this: * This behaviour is compatible with the old IEEE1394 stack. Old applications would not expect the DMA program to stop in this case. * Since the OHCI driver does not report any uncompleted packets, the context would stop silently; clients would not have any chance to detect and handle this error without a watchdog timer. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Pieter Palmers notes: "The reason I added this retry behavior to the old stack is because some cards now and then fail to send a packet (e.g. the o2micro card in my dell laptop). I couldn't figure out why exactly this happens, my best guess is that the card cannot fetch the payload data on time. This happens much more frequently when sending large packets, which leads me to suspect that there are some contention issues with the DMA that fills the transmit FIFO. In the old stack it was a pretty critical issue as it resulted in a freeze of the userspace application. The omission of a packet doesn't necessarily have to be an issue. E.g. in IEC61883 streams the DBC field can be used to detect discontinuities in the stream. So as long as the other side doesn't bail when no [packet] is present in a cycle, there is not really a problem. I'm not convinced though that retrying is the proper solution, but it is simple and effective for what it had to do. And I think there are no reasons not to do it this way. Userspace can still detect this by checking the cycle the descriptor was sent in." Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (changelog, comment)
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/ohci.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
index 2345d4103fe6..43ebf337b131 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
@@ -2101,11 +2101,6 @@ static int ohci_queue_iso_transmit(struct fw_iso_context *base,
u32 payload_index, payload_end_index, next_page_index;
int page, end_page, i, length, offset;
- /*
- * FIXME: Cycle lost behavior should be configurable: lose
- * packet, retransmit or terminate..
- */
-
p = packet;
payload_index = payload;
@@ -2135,6 +2130,14 @@ static int ohci_queue_iso_transmit(struct fw_iso_context *base,
if (!p->skip) {
d[0].control = cpu_to_le16(DESCRIPTOR_KEY_IMMEDIATE);
d[0].req_count = cpu_to_le16(8);
+ /*
+ * Link the skip address to this descriptor itself. This causes
+ * a context to skip a cycle whenever lost cycles or FIFO
+ * overruns occur, without dropping the data. The application
+ * should then decide whether this is an error condition or not.
+ * FIXME: Make the context's cycle-lost behaviour configurable?
+ */
+ d[0].branch_address = cpu_to_le32(d_bus | z);
header = (__le32 *) &d[1];
header[0] = cpu_to_le32(IT_HEADER_SY(p->sy) |