Hello again !
Quite a big mail, but maybe someone may give me some useful hints in
finding the real cause for my problem (besides the working work-around).
Processing is done from the irq handler (well, actually from
a tasklet triggered by irq). For a 30Mbit/s stream
this buffer holds ~50ms worth of TS packets which are then pushed
into a larger ringbuffer where it waits to be picked up by read()
from the demux/dvr device. If the DMA buffer overflows you have
an irq/tasklet latency problem.
If this is really a IRQ latency problem, how does it come the timer
interrupt
keeps counting jiffies while the SAA7146 cannot get its interrupt handled ?
Why does this happen in a reproducable way when using dump or sync ?
My cards are at interrupt 5 and 10 (both have same problem), where IRQ
10 even has a higher priority than the IDE interrupt.
Using APIC doesn't work at all, even with big DMA buffer.
Below I measured the time in jiffies vs. the real time (which was
measured by the amount of data filling the buffer ;-).
As one sees, the latency for the IRQ is as high as 74 milliseconds,
which I think is a "week" for an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ ...
And far beyond everything discussed for preemption and IRQ latencies.
The delay between hardware interrupt and tasklet was always < 2ms.
So, if interrupts are not locked (timer interrupt is running),
and the SAA7146 keeps generating interrupt (why should it stop just
because of system activity),
where does this problem come from ?
Is there a piece of code in the kernel which just blocks the interrupts
5 and 10 (or anything but timer) ?
Can something steal interrupts even if /proc/interrupts shows the
interrupt as unshared ?
Or am I getting something totally wrong here ?
Maybe the only way of really finding out is using the internal SAA7146
event counter for the interrupts, and see if they get lost somewhere ...
Ciao,
Ingo Schneider.
73884 bytes now, time: 16, missed: 0
81216 bytes now, time: 17, missed: 0
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282564 bytes now, time: 60, missed: 0
313208 bytes now, time: 66, missed: 0
354380 bytes now, time: 74, missed: 0
Btw: The "missed" is the interrupts delivered without the SAA7146 ISR
being set correctly (none, I just wanted to know ...).
My /proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 69043004 XT-PIC timer
1: 8 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 6222 XT-PIC serial
5: 5065177 XT-PIC saa7146 (1)
7: 9032713 XT-PIC parport0
8: 4 XT-PIC rtc
9: 1 XT-PIC acpi
10: 5152056 XT-PIC saa7146 (0)
11: 3597113 XT-PIC eth0
12: 102 XT-PIC i8042
14: 271268 XT-PIC ide0
15: 67231 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
lspci -vv
----------
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333]
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0000
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64-
HTrans- 64bit- FW- AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW-
Rate=<none>
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: dde00000-dfefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: cdc00000-ddcfffff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: TERRATEC Electronic GmbH: Unknown device 1156
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 240 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: TERRATEC Electronic GmbH: Unknown device 1156
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 240 (3750ns min, 9500ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at dffffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at dffffb00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Region 4: I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 1b) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 5
Region 4: I/O ports at e000 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 1b) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 5
Region 4: I/O ports at e400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 10)
Subsystem: Avance Logic Inc.: Unknown device 4710
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 6
Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15DDR
[GeForce2 Ti] (rev a4) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Creative 3D
Blaster Geforce2 Titanium
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at dfef0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- ITACoh- GART64-
HTrans- 64bit- FW+ AGP3- Rate=x1,x2,x4
Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA- AGP- GART64- 64bit- FW-
Rate=<none>
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