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libertas: increase spi driver thread priority 

Currently, the libertas main thread contends with the spi driver thread
in the TX path.  To improve throughput, ensure that the driver thread
has higher scheduling priority than the libertas main thread.  Do this
by making the libertas spi driver thread a low priority real time
thread.

We measured an average throughput improvement of 13%.

Signed-off-by: Anna Neal <anna@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Anna Neal 2009-04-02 14:44:09 -07:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 25e47c18ac
commit b26ed97c75
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drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c
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@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ static int __devinit if_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
struct libertas_spi_platform_data *pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
int err = 0;
u32 scratch;
struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 1 };
lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_SPI);
@ -1123,6 +1124,9 @@ static int __devinit if_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
lbs_pr_err("error creating SPI thread: err=%d\n", err);
goto remove_card;
}
if (sched_setscheduler(card->spi_thread, SCHED_FIFO, &param))
lbs_pr_err("Error setting scheduler, using default.\n");
err = request_irq(spi->irq, if_spi_host_interrupt,
IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, "libertas_spi", card);
if (err) {