At Bluecherry, we have issues with servers which have 3 solo6110 cards (and cards have up to 16 analog video cameras connected to them, and being actively read). This is a kernel which I tested with such a server last time. It is based on linux-next of October, 31, with few patches of mine (all are in review for upstream). https://github.com/krieger-od/linux/ . The HEAD commit is 949e18db86ebf45acab91d188b247abd40b6e2a1 at the moment.
The problem is the following: after ~1 hour of uptime with working application reading the streams, one card (the same one every time) stops producing interrupts (counter in /proc/interrupts freezes), and all threads reading from that card hang forever in ioctl(VIDIOC_DQBUF). The application uses libavformat (ffmpeg) API to read the corresponding /dev/videoX devices of H264 encoders. Application restart doesn't help, just interrupt counter increases by 64. To help that, we need reboot or programmatic PCI device reset by "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:03\:05.0/reset", which requires unloading app and driver and is not a solution obviously. We had this issue for a long time, even before we used libavformat for reading from such sources. A few days ago, we had standalone ffmpeg processes working stable for several days. The kernel was 3.17, the only probably-relevant change in code over the above mentioned revision is an additional bool variable set in solo_enc_v4l2_isr() and checked in solo_ring_thread() to figure out whether to do or skip solo_handle_ring(). The variable was guarded with spin_lock_irqsave(). I am not sure if it makes any difference, will try it again eventually. Any thoughts, can it be a bug in driver code causing that (please point which areas of code to review/fix)? Or is that desperate hardware issue? How to figure out for sure whether it is the former or the latter? -- Bluecherry developer. -- 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
