From: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] ALSA: core: let low-level driver or userspace disable rewinds
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:58:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559D56C8.8030605@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hmvz6hgrn.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
>> Add new hw_params flag to explicitly tell driver that rewinds
>> will never be used. This can be used by low-level driver to
>> optimize DMA operations and reduce power consumption.
>> Use this flag only when data written in ring buffer will
>> never be invalidated, e.g. any update of appl_ptr is final.
>>
>> Caveat: there is currently no way to query capabilities without
>> opening a pcm stream, so applications might need to serially
>> open all exposed devices, check what they support by looking at
>> hw_params->info and close them (this is what PulseAudio does so
>> might not be an issue)
>
> The forward should also fail with such hardware, no?
The way I understand the forward is just an update of the application
pointer without writing/reading new data, so that works. The hardware
will just use whatever is in the ring buffer. It's weird but it would work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 10:10 [RFC PATCH 0/4] better support for bursty DMA usages Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] ALSA: core: let low-level driver or userspace disable rewinds Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 14:21 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-07-08 16:58 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart [this message]
2015-07-11 17:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-14 3:32 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-14 17:39 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-15 1:23 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-15 4:51 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-28 14:19 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-28 15:43 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-29 17:46 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-30 6:11 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-30 13:46 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] ALSA: core: add .notify callback for pcm ops Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 14:27 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-07-08 17:10 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-09 14:44 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-07-09 7:25 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-09 7:35 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] ALSA: core: add report of max dma burst Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 14:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2015-07-08 17:46 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-10 2:35 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-10 17:13 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-07-11 17:46 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-11 18:28 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2015-07-16 2:11 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-08 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ALSA: hda: add default value for max_dma_burst Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-08 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] better support for bursty DMA usages Takashi Iwai
2015-07-08 17:50 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2015-07-15 10:14 ` Raymond Yau
2015-07-15 10:38 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2015-07-22 14:44 ` Raymond Yau
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