Takashi Sakamoto 1dba9db0ea ALSA: firewire-lib: permit to flush queued packets only in process context for better PCM period granularity ...

These three commits were merged to improve PCM pointer granularity.
commit 76fb878948 ("ALSA: firewire-lib: taskletize the snd_pcm_period_elapsed() call")
commit e9148dddc3 ("ALSA: firewire-lib: flush completed packets when reading PCM position")
commit 92b862c7d6 ("ALSA: firewire-lib: optimize packet flushing")

The point of them is to handle queued packets not only in software IRQ
context of IR/IT contexts, but also in process context. As a result of
handling packets, period tasklet is scheduled when acrossing PCM period
boundary. This is to prevent recursive call of
'struct snd_pcm_ops.pointer()' in the same context.

When the pointer callback is executed in the process context, it's
better to avoid the second callback in the software IRQ context. The
software IRQ context runs immediately after scheduled in the process
context because few packets are queued yet.

For the aim, 'pointer_flush' is used, however it causes a race condition
between the process context and software IRQ context of IR/IT contexts.

Practically, this race is not so critical because it influences process
context to skip flushing queued packet and to get worse granularity of
PCM pointer. The race condition is quite rare but it should be improved
for stable service.

The similar effect can be achieved by using 'in_interrupt()' macro. This
commit obsoletes 'pointer_flush' with it.

Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

2016-05-11 20:34:53 +02:00

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