when the serial works as a bluetooth sink, due to audio realtime
requirement, the driver should have something similar with ALSA:
1. one big DMA buffer to easy the schedule jitter
2. split this big DMA buffer to multiple small periods, for each
period, we get a DMA interrupt, then push the data to userspace.
the small periods will easy the audio latency.
so ALSA generally uses a cyclic chained DMA.
but for sirfsoc, the dma hardware has the limitation: we have
only two loops in the cyclic mode, so we can only support two
small periods to switch. if we make the DMA buffer too big, we
get long latency, if we make the DMA buffer too little, we get
miss in scheduling for audio realtime.
so this patch moves to use a hrtimer to simulate the cyclic
DMA, then we can have a big buffer, and also have a timely
data push to users as the hrtimer can generate in small period
then actual HW interrupts.
with this patch, we also delete a lot of complex codes to handle
loop buffers, and RX timeout interrupt since the RX work can be
completely handled from hrtimer interrupt.
tests show using this way will make our bad audio streaming be-
come smooth.
Signed-off-by: Qipan Li <Qipan.Li@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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