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From: Keyon Jie <yang.jie@linux.intel.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	"Rajwa, Marcin" <marcin.rajwa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: fix buffer_bytes max constrained by preallocated bytes issue
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:11:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7a64462-1cc1-234b-ac96-7774e6116118@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5himl7orc4.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

On 2020/1/19 下午3:09, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:52:55 +0100,
> Keyon Jie wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2020/1/17 下午7:12, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:43:24 +0100,
>>> Keyon Jie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In SOF driver, we don't use kernel config item like
>>>> CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE for HDA, the code for it is:
>>>>
>>>> 	snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages(pcm->streams[stream].substream,
>>>> 				      SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG, sdev->dev,
>>>> 				le32_to_cpu(caps->buffer_size_min),
>>>> 				le32_to_cpu(caps->buffer_size_max));
>>>>
>>>> So the preallocated size is configured via topology file, that is
>>>> caps->buffer_size_min, no chance for PulseAudio to reconfigure it.
>>>>
>>>> So, it looks like we have to change it to this if we don't change the
>>>> ALSA core:
>>>>
>>>> 	snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages(pcm->streams[stream].substream,
>>>> 				      SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG, sdev->dev,
>>>> -				le32_to_cpu(caps->buffer_size_min),
>>>> +				le32_to_cpu(caps->buffer_size_max),
>>>> 				le32_to_cpu(caps->buffer_size_max));
>>>
>>> Yes, passing buffer_size_min for the preallocation sounds already
>>> bad.  The default value should be sufficient for usual operations, not
>>> the cost-cutting minimum.  Otherwise there is no merit of
>>> preallocation.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, we may pass 0 there, indicating no limitation, too.
>>> But, this would need a bit other adjustment, e.g. snd_pcm_hardware
>>> should have lower buffer_bytes_max.
>>
>> Thank you Takashi, then let's follow it to pre-allocate with
>> caps->buffer_size_max, as we don't specify any limitations in
>> snd_pcm_hardware today, we want to leave it configurable to each
>> specific topology file for different machines.
> 
> How big is caps->buffer_size_max?  Passing the value there means
> actually trying to allocate the given size as default, and it'd be a
> lot of waste if a too large value (e.g. 32MB) is passed there.

It varies for each stream, most of them are 65536 Bytes only, whereas 
one for Wake-On-Voice might need a > 4 Seconds buffer could be up to 
about 1~2MBytes, and another one for deep-buffer playback can be up to 
about 8MBytes.

> 
> I think we can go for passing zero as default, which means skipping
> preallocation.  In addition, we may add an upper limit of the total

Just did an experiment and this works for me, I believe we still need to 
call snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer() though the preallocation is skipped in 
this, right?

> amount of allocation per card, controlled in pcm_memory.c, for
> example.  This logic can be applied to the legacy HDA, too.
> 
> This should be relatively easy, and I'll provide the patch in the next
> week.

OK, that's fine for me also, thank you.

~Keyon

> 
> 
> Takashi
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19  8:03 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
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 [this message]
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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