RE: [media][dvb-core] Question on dvr device copy

2012-02-13 Thread Hamad Kadmany
ia-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-media-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Hamad Kadmany Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:19 PM To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: [media][dvb-core] Question on dvr device copy Hi, Currently when playing stream from memory through dvr device (through write calls)

[media][dvb-core] Question on dvr device copy

2012-02-12 Thread Hamad Kadmany
Hi, Currently when playing stream from memory through dvr device (through write calls), the written buffer is copied from user-space to kernel space. The same applies when recording a stream, the TS packets received from HW are copied to dvr ring-buffer. I'm a bit concerned about the performance