[linux-dvb] Re: [PATCH] Alternative fix for budget stream problems

[Matthew Davis <matt@Helius.COM>]

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 05:30 am, Jon Burgess wrote:
> Last night I tried another approach to fixing the DMA issues. Instead of
> dealing with the awkward transition between the odd and even fields in
> the middle of the buffer, I just avoid the problem by using the whole
> buffer for both fields. This works fine for me on both the DVB &
> dvb-kernel drivers.
>
> In case you are wondering, I also tried the simpler case of just using
> just one of the fields, but that only worked 50% of the time.
>
> Please try one of the two patches attached for the DVB & dvb-kernel
> drivers. These patches are against the CVS of a few days ago and _should
> not_ be applied on top of my previous patches.
>
> 	Jon

Preliminary testing shows this patch to have worked for the DVB driver on our 
machines.  We've seen corruption/loss for awhile now, and since applying this 
patch to the latest release version of DVB it appears to be working 
beautifully.  We are stress testing overnight and will let you know the 
results tomorrow...

Matt Davis


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