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authorJosselin Costanzi <josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr>2015-03-22 20:33:38 +0200
committerJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>2015-03-29 16:17:09 +0100
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iio: add watermark logic to iio read and poll
Currently the IIO buffer blocking read only wait until at least one data element is available. This patch makes the reader sleep until enough data is collected before returning to userspace. This should limit the read() calls count when trying to get data in batches. Co-author: Yannick Bedhomme <yannick.bedhomme@mobile-devices.fr> Signed-off-by: Josselin Costanzi <josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr> [rebased and remove buffer timeout] Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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@@ -1280,3 +1280,18 @@ Contact: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Description:
Specifies number of seconds in which we compute the steps
that occur in order to decide if the consumer is making steps.
+
+What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/buffer/watermark
+KernelVersion: 4.2
+Contact: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ A single positive integer specifying the maximum number of scan
+ elements to wait for.
+ Poll will block until the watermark is reached.
+ Blocking read will wait until the minimum between the requested
+ read amount or the low water mark is available.
+ Non-blocking read will retrieve the available samples from the
+ buffer even if there are less samples then watermark level. This
+ allows the application to block on poll with a timeout and read
+ the available samples after the timeout expires and thus have a
+ maximum delay guarantee.