OMAP: mailbox: send message in process context

Schedule the Tasklet to send only when mailbox fifo is full and there are
pending messages in kfifo, else send the message directly in the Process
context. This would avoid needless scheduling of Tasklet for every message
transfer

Signed-off-by: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
Acked-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hiroshi.doyu@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
index d9aa87c0a92..cc58b44325f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/mailbox.c
@@ -92,20 +92,25 @@ int omap_mbox_msg_send(struct omap_mbox *mbox, mbox_msg_t msg)
 	struct omap_mbox_queue *mq = mbox->txq;
 	int ret = 0, len;
 
-	spin_lock(&mq->lock);
+	spin_lock_bh(&mq->lock);
 
 	if (kfifo_avail(&mq->fifo) < sizeof(msg)) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (kfifo_is_empty(&mq->fifo) && !__mbox_poll_for_space(mbox)) {
+		mbox_fifo_write(mbox, msg);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	len = kfifo_in(&mq->fifo, (unsigned char *)&msg, sizeof(msg));
 	WARN_ON(len != sizeof(msg));
 
 	tasklet_schedule(&mbox->txq->tasklet);
 
 out:
-	spin_unlock(&mq->lock);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&mq->lock);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(omap_mbox_msg_send);