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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2010-11-26 06:47:28 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-12-01 20:10:19 -0200
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[media] V4L: improve the BKL replacement heuristic
The BKL replacement mutex had some serious performance side-effects on V4L drivers. It is replaced by a better heuristic that works around the worst of the side-effects. Read the v4l2-dev.c comments for the whole sorry story. This is a temporary measure only until we can convert all v4l drivers to use unlocked_ioctl. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-device.h b/include/media/v4l2-device.h
index 6648036b728..b16f307d471 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-device.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-device.h
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ struct v4l2_device {
unsigned int notification, void *arg);
/* The control handler. May be NULL. */
struct v4l2_ctrl_handler *ctrl_handler;
+ /* BKL replacement mutex. Temporary solution only. */
+ struct mutex ioctl_lock;
};
/* Initialize v4l2_dev and make dev->driver_data point to v4l2_dev.