HID: nintendo: prevent needless queueing of the rumble worker

This patch adds a check for if the rumble queue ringbuffer is empty
prior to queuing the rumble workqueue. If the current rumble setting is
using a non-zero amplitude though, it will queue the worker anyway. This
is because the controller will automatically disable the rumble effect
if it isn't "refreshed".

This change improves bluetooth communication reliability with the
controller, since it reduces the amount of traffic.

Note that we still send a few periodic zero packets to avoid scenarios
where the controller fails to process the zero amplitude packet. Without
sending a few to be sure, the rumble could get stuck on until the
controller times out.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J. Ogorchock <[email protected]>

drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c

@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ struct joycon_input_report {
 static const u16 JC_RUMBLE_DFLT_LOW_FREQ = 160;
 static const u16 JC_RUMBLE_DFLT_HIGH_FREQ = 320;
 static const u16 JC_RUMBLE_PERIOD_MS = 50;
+static const unsigned short JC_RUMBLE_ZERO_AMP_PKT_CNT = 5;
 
 static const char * const joycon_player_led_names[] = {
 	LED_FUNCTION_PLAYER "-1",
@@ -464,6 +465,7 @@ struct joycon_ctlr {
 	u16 rumble_lh_freq;
 	u16 rumble_rl_freq;
 	u16 rumble_rh_freq;
+	unsigned short rumble_zero_countdown;
 
 	/* imu */
 	struct input_dev *imu_input;
@@ -1218,8 +1220,19 @@ static void joycon_parse_report(struct joycon_ctlr *ctlr,
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctlr->lock, flags);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NINTENDO_FF) && rep->vibrator_report &&
-	    (msecs - ctlr->rumble_msecs) >= JC_RUMBLE_PERIOD_MS)
+	    (msecs - ctlr->rumble_msecs) >= JC_RUMBLE_PERIOD_MS &&
+	    (ctlr->rumble_queue_head != ctlr->rumble_queue_tail ||
+	     ctlr->rumble_zero_countdown > 0)) {
+		/*
+		 * When this value reaches 0, we know we've sent multiple
+		 * packets to the controller instructing it to disable rumble.
+		 * We can safely stop sending periodic rumble packets until the
+		 * next ff effect.
+		 */
+		if (ctlr->rumble_zero_countdown > 0)
+			ctlr->rumble_zero_countdown--;
 		queue_work(ctlr->rumble_queue, &ctlr->rumble_worker);
+	}
 
 	/* Parse the battery status */
 	tmp = rep->bat_con;
@@ -1513,6 +1526,9 @@ static int joycon_set_rumble(struct joycon_ctlr *ctlr, u16 amp_r, u16 amp_l,
 	freq_r_high = ctlr->rumble_rh_freq;
 	freq_l_low = ctlr->rumble_ll_freq;
 	freq_l_high = ctlr->rumble_lh_freq;
+	/* limit number of silent rumble packets to reduce traffic */
+	if (amp_l != 0 || amp_r != 0)
+		ctlr->rumble_zero_countdown = JC_RUMBLE_ZERO_AMP_PKT_CNT;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctlr->lock, flags);
 
 	/* right joy-con */