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From: Keyon Jie <yang.jie@linux.intel.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"Rajwa, Marcin" <marcin.rajwa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix buffer_bytes max constrained by preallocated bytes issue
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:30:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1b549b7-a902-b2ee-e2e4-53f73893def3@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h5zhbp27i.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

On 2020/1/17 上午4:37, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:40:26 +0100,
> 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.
>>
>> Right, that's a valid case, but that's 256 kB, not 'very large' or
>> likely to ever trigger an OOM case.
> 
> That size shouldn't matter, and would work even with the
> preallocation.
> 
> My concern is that removing the limitation would allow the allocation
> of too large sizes.  Even with dma_max limit, it can go up to 32MB
> physical pages per stream for HDA.  Depending on the hardware setup,
> there can be a lot of streams assignment (e.g. HDMI codecs) and
> multiple codecs / controllers, and imagine that all those allocated
> pages are pinned and can't be swapped out...

Hi Takashi, I get your concern here, but if we switch to use dma_max 
limit, we won't change the preallocated buffer, it will be still 64KB 
for each stream, user space can ask for re-allocate buffer for each 
stream up to 32MB, but those pinned and can't be swapped out ones are 
the 64KB preallocated ones only, am I wrong?

Thanks,
~Keyon

> 
> 
> Takashi
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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
2020-01-16 17:40                   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-01-16 20:37                     ` Takashi Iwai
2020-01-17  5:30                       ` Keyon Jie [this message]
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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