On 10.12.2011 00:43, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On 09-12-2011 21:37, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> On 09-12-2011 20:33, Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >>> <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Could someone explain reason for that? >>>> >>>> >>>> I dunno, but I think this needs to be fixed, at least when the frontend >>>> is opened with O_NONBLOCK. >>> >>> Are you doing the drx-k firmware load on dvb_init()? That could >>> easily take 4 seconds. >> >> No. The firmware were opened previously. > > Maybe the delay is due to this part of dvb_frontend.c: > > static int dvb_mfe_wait_time = 5; > ... > int mferetry = (dvb_mfe_wait_time << 1); > > mutex_unlock (&adapter->mfe_lock); > while (mferetry-- && (mfedev->users != -1 || > mfepriv->thread != NULL)) { > if(msleep_interruptible(500)) { > if(signal_pending(current)) > return -EINTR; > } > } I haven't looked at the mfe code, but in case it's waiting for the frontend thread to exit, there's a problem that causes the thread not to exit immediately. Here's a patch that's been sitting in my queue for a while: --- Signed-off-by: Andreas Oberritter <obi@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c index 7784d74..6823c2b 100644 --- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2011-09-07 12:32:24.000000000 +0200 +++ a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c 2011-09-13 15:55:48.865742791 +0200 @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ return 1; if (fepriv->dvbdev->writers == 1) - if (time_after(jiffies, fepriv->release_jiffies + + if (time_after_eq(jiffies, fepriv->release_jiffies + dvb_shutdown_timeout * HZ)) return 1; @@ -2070,12 +2070,15 @@ dprintk ("%s\n", __func__); - if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY) + if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY) { fepriv->release_jiffies = jiffies; + mb(); + } ret = dvb_generic_release (inode, file); if (dvbdev->users == -1) { + wake_up(&fepriv->wait_queue); if (fepriv->exit != DVB_FE_NO_EXIT) { fops_put(file->f_op); file->f_op = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html