Re: [RFC PATCH v6 6/9] media: tegra: Add Tegra210 Video input driver

[Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@nvidia.com>]

On 4/6/20 2:39 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
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> On 4/6/20 2:15 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
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>> On 4/6/20 2:11 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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>>> 07.04.2020 00:02, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет:
>>>>>>>>> Am I understanding correctly that this thread will take 100% CPU,
>>>>>>>>> spinning here, if more than 2 frame-captures queued?
>>>>>>>> on more than 2 frames captures, it breaks thread and on next 
>>>>>>>> wakeup it
>>>>>>>> continues
>>>>>>> The wait_event() won't wait if condition is true.
>>>>>> condition is checked when waitqueue is woken up
>>>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.6.2/source/include/linux/wait.h#L462 
>>>>>
>>>> process is put to sleep until the condition evaluates to true or 
>>>> signal
>>>> is received.
>>>>
>>>> condition is checked each time the waitqueue head is woken up.
>>> This is a wrong assumption in accordance to the code.

process is in sleep until the condition is evaluated and when condition 
is true wakeup still happens only when wake_up on waitqueue is called

This is the reason for using this to prevent blocking while waiting for 
the buffers.

>>
>> when every buffer is available as long as we are in streaming, we 
>> should process it.
>>
>> So if wake up happens when list has buffer, it will be processed but 
>> at a time we limit processing 2 simultaneous buffer capture starts only.
>>
> Fixing typo.
>
> I meant when ever buffer is available as long as we are in streaming, 
> we should process it.
>
> So capture thread processes as long as buffers are available from user 
> space limiting 2 simultaneous trigger of captures and thread will be 
> in sleep when capture buffers list is empty or no stop thread is 
> signaled.