On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:15:14PM +0100, Schubert Andreas wrote: > Hello everybody on the list, > > I have a KNC-1 DVB-S card running under kernel 2.6.36 and mythtv. I > experience high load values in top like mentioned ages ago in this thread: > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2008-June/026509.html. > My card has no CI-Module installed and the high load was CI-Module related, > so I decided to give it a try and completely disable ciintf_init() in the > kernel module which helped a lot. Load decreased by 50-80%. So I decided to > add a module parameter to disable ciintf_init() on demand. Here is the diff: > > 65,69d64 > < > < int budget_init_ci=1; > < module_param_named(init_ci, budget_init_ci, int, 0644); > < MODULE_PARM_DESC(init_ci, "Turn on(1)/off(0) ci initializing > (default:on)."); > < > 1519,1520c1514 > < if (budget_init_ci) > < ciintf_init(budget_av); > --- > > ciintf_init(budget_av); > > I don't know if this is useful at all so please be patient with me.
It's useful as bug report. I don't think the module parameter makes sense we should simply fix the bug. I'll look if I can reproduce this with one of my budget_av DVB-C cards. Janne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
