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firewire: core: allocate workqueue to handle isochronous contexts in card
This commit adds a workqueue dedicated for isochronous context processing.
The workqueue is allocated per instance of fw_card structure to satisfy the
following characteristics descending from 1394 OHCI specification:
In 1394 OHCI specification, memory pages are reserved to each isochronous
context dedicated to DMA transmission. It allows to operate these
per-context pages concurrently. Software can schedule hardware interrupt
for several isochronous context to the same cycle, thus WQ_UNBOUND is
specified. Additionally, it is sleepable to operate the content of pages,
thus WQ_BH is not used.
The isochronous context delivers the packets with time stamp, thus
WQ_HIGHPRI is specified for semi real-time data such as IEC 61883-1/6
protocol implemented by ALSA firewire stack. The isochronous context is not
used by the implementation of SCSI over IEEE1394 protocol (sbp2), thus
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM is not specified.
It is useful for users to adjust cpu affinity of the workqueue depending
on their work loads, thus WQ_SYS is specified to expose the attributes to
user space.
Tested-by: Edmund Raile <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <[email protected]>
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