It sounds like you have some kind of problem in your tasklet. Also,
100 interrupts/sec sounds very high to me, given a typical frame rate
of 30 fps. There should be a way to consolidate those interrupts so
you are only generating one per frame.

On Feb 2, 8:10 pm, Manish Sharma <manishsharm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> In video driver we are not doing any major processing. It is just any
> interface driver to the h/w video codec. It manages the interrupts coming
> from the h/w. For decoding and display 4 interrupts are coming, 2 inputs and
> 2 outputs. If we are using 25fps stream then 100 interrupts/sec. We have
> disabled the h/w decoding and enabled only display then the playback is bit
> improved. We are using tasklet to process the interrupts in video driver. We
> have observed this is causing the issue. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Manish
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com> wrote:
>
> > Are you using floating point in your codec?
>
> > On Feb 2, 1:42 am, Manish Sharma <manishsharm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Dave,
>
> > > With software decoder this is not happening. Mostly the issue with our
> > video
> > > driver.
>
> > > Regards,
> > > Manish
> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com
> > >wrote:
>
> > > > Something is obviously generating a lot of softirq's. Does this happen
> > > > when you use the software codec?
>
> > > > On Jan 29, 11:45 pm, Manish Sharma <manishsharm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
>
> > > > > We have replaced the video decoder of PV player with our H/w video
> > > > decoder
> > > > > and  are able to display the video.
> > > > > The issue is that the playback pauses in between and progresses from
> > the
> > > > > same place, frequently.
> > > > > For display we are using ashmem in android_output_surface.cpp file.
>
> > > > > With 'top' we have observed that while the video playback is paused
> > > > > "ksoftirqd" CPU load goes to very high value.
> > > > > Please see below.
>
> > > > > PID CPU% S  #THR     VSS     RSS UID      Name
> > > > >   3 165% R     1      0K      0K root     ksoftirqd/0
> > > > >  1539  57% S     9  26096K   6688K media    /system/bin/mediaserver
> > > > >  1559  15% S    29 252988K  21996K system   system_server
> > > > >  1596   5% S     8  99288K  16896K app_5    android.process.acore
> > > > >  1696   5% R     1    900K    372K root     top
> > > > >    10   0% S     1      0K      0K root     suspend/0
> > > > >    66   0% S     1      0K      0K root     kblockd/0
> > > > >    77   0% S     1      0K      0K root     kmmcd
> > > > >   110   0% S     1      0K      0K root     pdflush
> > > > >   111   0% S     1      0K      0K root     pdflush
> > > > >   112   0% S     1      0K      0K root     kswapd0
> > > > >     1   0% S     1    260K    172K root     /init
> > > > >   741   0% S     1      0K      0K root     mtdblockd
> > > > >   804   0% S     1      0K      0K root     rpciod/0
> > > > >  1532   0% S     1    724K    316K root     /system/bin/sh
> > > > >  1533   0% S     1    796K    248K system
> > /system/bin/servicemanager
> > > > >  1535   0% S     2   1824K    340K root     /system/bin/mountd
> > > > >  1536   0% S     1    652K    252K root     /system/bin/debuggerd
> > > > >  1537   0% S     1  71020K  18668K root     zygote
> > > > >  1541   0% S     1   1156K    564K bluetoot /system/bin/dbus-daemon
> > > > >  1543   0% S     1    788K    292K root     /system/bin/installd
> > > > >  1545   0% S     2   1264K    124K root     /sbin/adbd
> > > > >  1599   0% S    10  98372K  13944K radio    com.android.phone
> > > > >  1618   0% S     6  98728K  11596K app_12   com.android.mms
> > > > >  1630   0% S     8  99528K  12152K app_4    android.process.media
> > > > >  1643   0% S     6  94584K  10912K app_11   android.process.im
> > > > >  1650   0% S     7  94496K  12700K app_3    com.android.calendar
> > > > >  1661   0% S     6  92156K  11092K app_0    com.android.alarmclock
> > > > >  1675   0% S     1      0K      0K root     mmcqd
> > > > >  1679   0% S     6  98084K  12480K app_13   com.android.music
> > > > >  1686   0% S     6 101292K  14196K app_13
> > com.android.music:MovieView
> > > > >  Please provide if you have any input.
>
> > > > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > > > Manish
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