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From: "Rajwa, Marcin" <marcin.rajwa@linux.intel.com>
To: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	"Jie, Yang" <yang.jie@intel.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Keyon Jie <yang.jie@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix buffer_bytes max constrained by preallocated bytes issue
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:25:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93ac843a-bad5-550e-f427-e2a94bd3e8ef@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c70934a1-b838-5029-6573-bf76a34c4cb9@linux.intel.com>


On 1/16/2020 5:39 PM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
>>> So, do you suggest not doing preallocation(or calling it with 0 
>>> size) for all
>>> driver with TYPE_SG? I am fine if this is the recommended method, I 
>>> can try
>>> this on SOF I2S platform to see if it can work as we required for 
>>> very large
>>> buffer size.
>
> Keyon, for the rest of us to follow this patch, would you mind 
> clarifying what drives the need for a 'very large buffer size', and 
> what order of magnitude this very large size would be.
>
> FWIW, we've measured consistently on different Windows/Linux 
> platforms, maybe 10 years ago, that once you reach a buffer of 1s (384 
> kB) the benefits from increasing that buffer size further are marginal 
> in terms of power consumption, and generate all kinds of issues with 
> volume updates and deferred routing changes.
>
We need bigger buffer on host side to compensate the wake up time from 
d0ix to d0 which takes ~2 seconds on my setup. So, wiith smaller buffer 
sizes like < 2 seconds we overwrite data since FW keeps copping while 
host doesn't read until its up and running again.

> Thanks
> -Pierre
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-16  4:53 [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix buffer_bytes max constrained by preallocated bytes issue Keyon Jie
2020-01-16  7:15 ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-16  9:50   ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-16 10:27     ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-16 11:25       ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-16 11:50         ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-16 14:14           ` Jie, Yang
2020-01-16 15:31             ` Jie, Yang
2020-01-16 16:07               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-16 16:39               ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-01-16 17:25                 ` Rajwa, Marcin [this message]
2020-01-16 17:40                   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-01-16 20:37                     ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17  5:30                       ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-17  7:57                         ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17 10:13                           ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-17 10:30                             ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17 10:56                               ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-17 11:15                                 ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17  5:37                     ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-17  8:00                       ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17 10:43                         ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-17 11:12                           ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-19  3:52                             ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-19  7:09                               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-19  8:11                                 ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-19  9:04                                   ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-19 10:14                                     ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-19 10:43                                       ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-20  2:23                                         ` Keyon Jie
2020-01-16 15:45             ` Takashi Iwai

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