Reduce the bit count from 2^24-1 to 2^16-1 to speedup BER measurement; Do a per-layer reset, instead of waiting for data on all layers;
Global stats now start to appear as soon as the first layer (e. g. the one with the biggest number of segments) start to have collected data. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@redhat.com> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c index 21e7e68..0d13c87 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c @@ -86,16 +86,36 @@ static struct regdata mb86a20s_init[] = { { 0x04, 0x13 }, { 0x05, 0xff }, { 0x04, 0x15 }, { 0x05, 0x4e }, { 0x04, 0x16 }, { 0x05, 0x20 }, + + /* + * On this demod, when the bit count reaches the count below, + * it collects the bit error count. + * + * As FE thread runs on every 3 seconds, adjust the counters to + * provide one collect before 3 seconds, at the worse case (DQPSK, + * 1/4 guard interval, 1/2 FEC, 1-seg rate is 280 Mbps, and + * 3 seconds takes 0xcdb9f bits. Rounds it down to 0xccfff + * + * It should be noticed, however, that, with QAM-64 1/32 guard interval, + * 1 segment bit rate is 1.78 Mbps, and 12-seg is about 21.5 Mbps. + * At such rate, the time to measure BER is about 40 ms. + * + * It makes sense to change the logic there to use TMCC parameters and + * adjust the counters in order to have all of them to take a little + * less than 3 seconds, in order to have a more realistic BER rate, + * instead of having short samples for 12-segs. + */ { 0x52, 0x01 }, /* Turn on BER before Viterbi */ - { 0x50, 0xa7 }, { 0x51, 0xff }, - { 0x50, 0xa8 }, { 0x51, 0xff }, + { 0x50, 0xa7 }, { 0x51, 0x0c }, + { 0x50, 0xa8 }, { 0x51, 0xcf }, { 0x50, 0xa9 }, { 0x51, 0xff }, - { 0x50, 0xaa }, { 0x51, 0xff }, - { 0x50, 0xab }, { 0x51, 0xff }, + { 0x50, 0xaa }, { 0x51, 0x0c }, + { 0x50, 0xab }, { 0x51, 0xcf }, { 0x50, 0xac }, { 0x51, 0xff }, - { 0x50, 0xad }, { 0x51, 0xff }, - { 0x50, 0xae }, { 0x51, 0xff }, + { 0x50, 0xad }, { 0x51, 0x0c }, + { 0x50, 0xae }, { 0x51, 0xcf }, { 0x50, 0xaf }, { 0x51, 0xff }, + { 0x5e, 0x07 }, { 0x50, 0xdc }, { 0x51, 0x01 }, { 0x50, 0xdd }, { 0x51, 0xf4 }, @@ -711,6 +731,14 @@ static int mb86a20s_get_ber_before_vterbi(struct dvb_frontend *fe, "%s: bit count before Viterbi for layer %c: %d.\n", __func__, 'A' + layer, *count); + /* Reset counter to collect new data */ + rc = mb86a20s_writereg(state, 0x53, 0x07 & ~(1 << layer)); + if (rc < 0) + return rc; + rc = mb86a20s_writereg(state, 0x53, 0x07); + if (rc < 0) + return rc; + return 0; } @@ -799,7 +827,11 @@ static int mb86a20s_get_stats(struct dvb_frontend *fe) } } - if (active_layers == ber_layers) { + /* + * Start showing global count if at least one error count is + * available. + */ + if (ber_layers) { /* * All BER values are read. We can now calculate the total BER * And ask for another BER measure @@ -812,12 +844,6 @@ static int mb86a20s_get_stats(struct dvb_frontend *fe) c->bit_count.stat[0].scale = FE_SCALE_COUNTER; c->bit_count.stat[0].uvalue += t_bit_count; - /* Reset counters to collect new data */ - rc = mb86a20s_writeregdata(state, mb86a20s_vber_reset); - if (rc < 0) - dev_err(&state->i2c->dev, - "%s: Can't reset VBER registers.\n", __func__); - /* All BER measures need to be collected when ready */ for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) state->read_ber[i] = true; -- 1.7.11.7 -- 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