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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
//
// xfer-libasound.c - receive/transmit frames by alsa-lib.
//
// Copyright (c) 2018 Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
//
// Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
#include "xfer-libasound.h"
#include "misc.h"
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
static const char *const sched_model_labels [] = {
[SCHED_MODEL_IRQ] = "irq",
[SCHED_MODEL_TIMER] = "timer",
};
enum no_short_opts {
// 200 or later belong to non us-ascii character set.
OPT_PERIOD_SIZE = 200,
OPT_BUFFER_SIZE,
OPT_WAITER_TYPE,
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
OPT_SCHED_MODEL,
OPT_DISABLE_RESAMPLE,
OPT_DISABLE_CHANNELS,
OPT_DISABLE_FORMAT,
OPT_DISABLE_SOFTVOL,
OPT_FATAL_ERRORS,
OPT_TEST_NOWAIT,
// Obsoleted.
OPT_TEST_POSITION,
OPT_TEST_COEF,
};
#define S_OPTS "D:NMF:B:A:R:T:m:"
static const struct option l_opts[] = {
{"device", 1, 0, 'D'},
{"nonblock", 0, 0, 'N'},
{"mmap", 0, 0, 'M'},
{"period-time", 1, 0, 'F'},
{"buffer-time", 1, 0, 'B'},
{"period-size", 1, 0, OPT_PERIOD_SIZE},
{"buffer-size", 1, 0, OPT_BUFFER_SIZE},
{"avail-min", 1, 0, 'A'},
{"start-delay", 1, 0, 'R'},
{"stop-delay", 1, 0, 'T'},
{"waiter-type", 1, 0, OPT_WAITER_TYPE},
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
{"sched-model", 1, 0, OPT_SCHED_MODEL},
// For plugins in alsa-lib.
{"disable-resample", 0, 0, OPT_DISABLE_RESAMPLE},
{"disable-channels", 0, 0, OPT_DISABLE_CHANNELS},
{"disable-format", 0, 0, OPT_DISABLE_FORMAT},
{"disable-softvol", 0, 0, OPT_DISABLE_SOFTVOL},
// For debugging.
{"fatal-errors", 0, 0, OPT_FATAL_ERRORS},
{"test-nowait", 0, 0, OPT_TEST_NOWAIT},
// Obsoleted.
{"chmap", 1, 0, 'm'},
{"test-position", 0, 0, OPT_TEST_POSITION},
{"test-coef", 1, 0, OPT_TEST_COEF},
};
static int xfer_libasound_init(struct xfer_context *xfer,
snd_pcm_stream_t)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
int err;
err = snd_output_stdio_attach(&state->log, stderr, 0);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_malloc(&state->hw_params);
if (err < 0)
return err;
return snd_pcm_sw_params_malloc(&state->sw_params);
}
static int xfer_libasound_parse_opt(struct xfer_context *xfer, int key,
const char *optarg)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
int err = 0;
if (key == 'D')
state->node_literal = arg_duplicate_string(optarg, &err);
else if (key == 'N')
state->nonblock = true;
else if (key == 'M')
state->mmap = true;
else if (key == 'F')
state->msec_per_period = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == 'B')
state->msec_per_buffer = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == OPT_PERIOD_SIZE)
state->frames_per_period = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == OPT_BUFFER_SIZE)
state->frames_per_buffer = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == 'A')
state->msec_for_avail_min = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == 'R')
state->msec_for_start_threshold = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == 'T')
state->msec_for_stop_threshold = arg_parse_decimal_num(optarg, &err);
else if (key == OPT_WAITER_TYPE)
state->waiter_type_literal = arg_duplicate_string(optarg, &err);
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
else if (key == OPT_SCHED_MODEL)
state->sched_model_literal = arg_duplicate_string(optarg, &err);
else if (key == OPT_DISABLE_RESAMPLE)
state->no_auto_resample = true;
else if (key == OPT_DISABLE_CHANNELS)
state->no_auto_channels = true;
else if (key == OPT_DISABLE_FORMAT)
state->no_auto_format = true;
else if (key == OPT_DISABLE_SOFTVOL)
state->no_softvol = true;
else if (key == 'm' ||
key == OPT_TEST_POSITION ||
key == OPT_TEST_COEF)
err = -EINVAL;
else if (key == OPT_FATAL_ERRORS)
state->finish_at_xrun = true;
else if (key == OPT_TEST_NOWAIT)
state->test_nowait = true;
else
err = -ENXIO;
return err;
}
int xfer_libasound_validate_opts(struct xfer_context *xfer)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
int err = 0;
state->verbose = xfer->verbose > 1;
if (state->node_literal == NULL) {
state->node_literal = strdup("default");
if (state->node_literal == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
}
if (state->mmap && state->nonblock) {
fprintf(stderr,
"An option for mmap operation should not be used with "
"nonblocking option.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
if (state->test_nowait) {
if (!state->nonblock && !state->mmap) {
fprintf(stderr,
"An option for nowait test should be used with "
"nonblock or mmap options.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
if (state->msec_per_period > 0 && state->msec_per_buffer > 0) {
if (state->msec_per_period > state->msec_per_buffer) {
state->msec_per_period = state->msec_per_buffer;
state->msec_per_buffer = 0;
}
}
if (state->frames_per_period > 0 && state->frames_per_buffer > 0) {
if (state->frames_per_period > state->frames_per_buffer) {
state->frames_per_period = state->frames_per_buffer;
state->frames_per_buffer = 0;
}
}
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
state->sched_model = SCHED_MODEL_IRQ;
if (state->sched_model_literal != NULL) {
if (!strcmp(state->sched_model_literal, "timer")) {
state->sched_model = SCHED_MODEL_TIMER;
state->mmap = true;
state->nonblock = true;
}
}
if (state->waiter_type_literal != NULL) {
if (state->test_nowait) {
fprintf(stderr,
"An option for waiter type should not be "
"used with nowait test option.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
if (!state->nonblock && !state->mmap) {
fprintf(stderr,
"An option for waiter type should be used "
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
"with nonblock or mmap or timer-based "
"scheduling options.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
state->waiter_type =
waiter_type_from_label(state->waiter_type_literal);
} else {
state->waiter_type = WAITER_TYPE_DEFAULT;
}
return err;
}
static int set_access_hw_param(struct libasound_state *state)
{
snd_pcm_access_mask_t *mask;
int err;
err = snd_pcm_access_mask_malloc(&mask);
if (err < 0)
return err;
snd_pcm_access_mask_none(mask);
if (state->mmap) {
snd_pcm_access_mask_set(mask, SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED);
snd_pcm_access_mask_set(mask, SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED);
} else {
snd_pcm_access_mask_set(mask, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED);
snd_pcm_access_mask_set(mask, SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED);
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access_mask(state->handle, state->hw_params,
mask);
snd_pcm_access_mask_free(mask);
return err;
}
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
static int disable_period_wakeup(struct libasound_state *state)
{
int err;
if (snd_pcm_type(state->handle) != SND_PCM_TYPE_HW) {
logging(state,
"Timer-based scheduling is only available for 'hw' "
"PCM plugin.\n");
return -ENXIO;
}
if (!snd_pcm_hw_params_can_disable_period_wakeup(state->hw_params)) {
logging(state,
"This hardware doesn't support the mode of no-period-"
"wakeup. In this case, timer-based scheduling is not "
"available.\n");
return -EIO;
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_wakeup(state->handle,
state->hw_params, 0);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to disable period wakeup so that the hardware "
"generates no IRQs during transmission of data "
"frames.\n");
}
return err;
}
static int open_handle(struct xfer_context *xfer)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
int mode = 0;
int err;
if (state->nonblock)
mode |= SND_PCM_NONBLOCK;
if (state->no_auto_resample)
mode |= SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_RESAMPLE;
if (state->no_auto_channels)
mode |= SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_CHANNELS;
if (state->no_auto_format)
mode |= SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT;
if (state->no_softvol)
mode |= SND_PCM_NO_SOFTVOL;
err = snd_pcm_open(&state->handle, state->node_literal, xfer->direction,
mode);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state, "Fail to open libasound PCM node for %s: %s\n",
snd_pcm_stream_name(xfer->direction),
state->node_literal);
return err;
}
if ((state->nonblock || state->mmap) && !state->test_nowait)
state->use_waiter = true;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_any(state->handle, state->hw_params);
if (err < 0)
return err;
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
if (state->sched_model == SCHED_MODEL_TIMER) {
err = disable_period_wakeup(state);
if (err < 0)
return err;
}
if (xfer->dump_hw_params) {
logging(state, "Available HW Params of node: %s\n",
snd_pcm_name(state->handle));
snd_pcm_hw_params_dump(state->hw_params, state->log);
// TODO: there're more parameters which are not dumped by
// alsa-lib.
return 0;
}
return set_access_hw_param(state);
}
static int prepare_waiter(struct libasound_state *state)
{
unsigned int pfd_count;
int err;
// Nothing to do for dafault waiter (=snd_pcm_wait()).
if (state->waiter_type == WAITER_TYPE_DEFAULT)
return 0;
err = snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_count(state->handle);
if (err < 0)
return err;
if (err == 0)
return -ENXIO;
pfd_count = (unsigned int)err;
state->waiter = malloc(sizeof(*state->waiter));
if (state->waiter == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
err = waiter_context_init(state->waiter, state->waiter_type, pfd_count);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = snd_pcm_poll_descriptors(state->handle, state->waiter->pfds,
pfd_count);
if (err < 0)
return err;
return waiter_context_prepare(state->waiter);
}
int xfer_libasound_wait_event(struct libasound_state *state, int timeout_msec,
unsigned short *revents)
{
int count;
if (state->waiter_type != WAITER_TYPE_DEFAULT) {
struct waiter_context *waiter = state->waiter;
int err;
count = waiter_context_wait_event(waiter, timeout_msec);
if (count < 0)
return count;
if (count == 0 && timeout_msec > 0)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
err = snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_revents(state->handle,
waiter->pfds, waiter->pfd_count, revents);
if (err < 0)
return err;
} else {
count = snd_pcm_wait(state->handle, timeout_msec);
if (count < 0)
return count;
if (count == 0 && timeout_msec > 0)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
if (snd_pcm_stream(state->handle) == SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK)
*revents = POLLOUT;
else
*revents = POLLIN;
}
return 0;
}
static int configure_hw_params(struct libasound_state *state,
snd_pcm_format_t format,
unsigned int samples_per_frame,
unsigned int frames_per_second,
unsigned int msec_per_period,
unsigned int msec_per_buffer,
snd_pcm_uframes_t frames_per_period,
snd_pcm_uframes_t frames_per_buffer)
{
int err;
// Configure sample format.
if (format == SND_PCM_FORMAT_UNKNOWN) {
snd_pcm_format_mask_t *mask;
err = snd_pcm_format_mask_malloc(&mask);
if (err < 0)
return err;
snd_pcm_hw_params_get_format_mask(state->hw_params, mask);
for (format = 0; format <= SND_PCM_FORMAT_LAST; ++format) {
if (snd_pcm_format_mask_test(mask, format))
break;
}
snd_pcm_format_mask_free(mask);
if (format > SND_PCM_FORMAT_LAST) {
logging(state,
"Any sample format is not available.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_format(state->handle, state->hw_params,
format);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Sample format '%s' is not available: %s\n",
snd_pcm_format_name(format), snd_strerror(err));
return err;
}
// Configure channels.
if (samples_per_frame == 0) {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels_min(state->hw_params,
&samples_per_frame);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Any channel number is not available.\n");
return err;
}
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(state->handle, state->hw_params,
samples_per_frame);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Channels count '%u' is not available: %s\n",
samples_per_frame, snd_strerror(err));
return err;
}
// Configure rate.
if (frames_per_second == 0) {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate_min(state->hw_params,
&frames_per_second, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Any rate is not available.\n");
return err;
}
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate(state->handle, state->hw_params,
frames_per_second, 0);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Sampling rate '%u' is not available: %s\n",
frames_per_second, snd_strerror(err));
return err;
}
// Keep one of 'frames_per_buffer' and 'msec_per_buffer'.
if (frames_per_buffer == 0) {
if (msec_per_buffer == 0) {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_time_max(
state->hw_params, &msec_per_buffer, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"The maximum msec per buffer is not "
"available.\n");
return err;
}
if (msec_per_buffer > 500000)
msec_per_buffer = 500000;
}
} else if (msec_per_buffer > 0) {
uint64_t msec;
msec = 1000000 * frames_per_buffer / frames_per_second;
if (msec < msec_per_buffer)
msec_per_buffer = 0;
}
// Keep one of 'frames_per_period' and 'msec_per_period'.
if (frames_per_period == 0) {
if (msec_per_period == 0) {
if (msec_per_buffer > 0)
msec_per_period = msec_per_buffer / 4;
else
frames_per_period = frames_per_buffer / 4;
}
} else if (msec_per_period > 0) {
uint64_t msec;
msec = 1000000 * frames_per_period / frames_per_second;
if (msec < msec_per_period)
msec_per_period = 0;
}
if (msec_per_period) {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_time_near(state->handle,
state->hw_params, &msec_per_period, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure period time: %u msec\n",
msec_per_period);
return err;
}
} else {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_period_size_near(state->handle,
state->hw_params, &frames_per_period, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure period size: %lu frames\n",
frames_per_period);
return err;
}
}
if (msec_per_buffer) {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_time_near(state->handle,
state->hw_params, &msec_per_buffer, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure buffer time: %u msec\n",
msec_per_buffer);
return err;
}
} else {
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_size_near(state->handle,
state->hw_params, &frames_per_buffer);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure buffer size: %lu frames\n",
frames_per_buffer);
return err;
}
}
return snd_pcm_hw_params(state->handle, state->hw_params);
}
static int retrieve_actual_hw_params(snd_pcm_hw_params_t *hw_params,
snd_pcm_format_t *format,
unsigned int *samples_per_frame,
unsigned int *frames_per_second,
snd_pcm_access_t *access,
snd_pcm_uframes_t *frames_per_buffer)
{
int err;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_format(hw_params, format);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_channels(hw_params,
samples_per_frame);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate(hw_params, frames_per_second,
NULL);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_access(hw_params, access);
if (err < 0)
return err;
return snd_pcm_hw_params_get_buffer_size(hw_params, frames_per_buffer);
}
static int configure_sw_params(struct libasound_state *state,
unsigned int frames_per_second,
unsigned int frames_per_buffer,
unsigned int msec_for_avail_min,
unsigned int msec_for_start_threshold,
unsigned int msec_for_stop_threshold)
{
snd_pcm_uframes_t frame_count;
int err;
if (msec_for_avail_min > 0) {
frame_count = msec_for_avail_min * frames_per_second / 1000000;
if (frame_count == 0 || frame_count > frames_per_buffer) {
logging(state,
"The msec for 'avail_min' is too %s: %u "
"msec (%lu frames at %u).\n",
frame_count == 0 ? "small" : "large",
msec_for_avail_min, frame_count,
frames_per_second);
return -EINVAL;
}
err = snd_pcm_sw_params_set_avail_min(state->handle,
state->sw_params, frame_count);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure 'avail-min'.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
if (msec_for_start_threshold > 0) {
frame_count = msec_for_start_threshold * frames_per_second /
1000000;
if (frame_count == 0 || frame_count > frames_per_buffer) {
logging(state,
"The msec for 'start-delay' is too %s: %u "
"msec (%lu frames at %u).\n",
frame_count == 0 ? "small" : "large",
msec_for_start_threshold, frame_count,
frames_per_second);
return -EINVAL;
}
err = snd_pcm_sw_params_set_start_threshold(state->handle,
state->sw_params, frame_count);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure 'start-delay'.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
if (msec_for_stop_threshold > 0) {
frame_count = msec_for_stop_threshold * frames_per_second /
1000000;
if (frame_count == 0 || frame_count > frames_per_buffer) {
logging(state,
"The msec for 'stop-delay' is too %s: %u "
"msec (%lu frames at %u).\n",
frame_count == 0 ? "small" : "large",
msec_for_stop_threshold, frame_count,
frames_per_second);
return -EINVAL;
}
err = snd_pcm_sw_params_set_stop_threshold(state->handle,
state->sw_params, frame_count);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state,
"Fail to configure 'stop-delay'.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
return snd_pcm_sw_params(state->handle, state->sw_params);
}
static int xfer_libasound_pre_process(struct xfer_context *xfer,
snd_pcm_format_t *format,
unsigned int *samples_per_frame,
unsigned int *frames_per_second,
snd_pcm_access_t *access,
snd_pcm_uframes_t *frames_per_buffer)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
unsigned int flag;
int err;
err = open_handle(xfer);
if (err < 0)
return -ENXIO;
err = configure_hw_params(state, *format, *samples_per_frame,
*frames_per_second,
state->msec_per_period,
state->msec_per_buffer,
state->frames_per_period,
state->frames_per_buffer);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state, "Current hardware parameters:\n");
snd_pcm_hw_params_dump(state->hw_params, state->log);
return err;
}
// Retrieve actual parameters.
err = retrieve_actual_hw_params(state->hw_params, format,
samples_per_frame, frames_per_second,
access, frames_per_buffer);
if (err < 0)
return err;
// Query software parameters.
err = snd_pcm_sw_params_current(state->handle, state->sw_params);
if (err < 0)
return err;
// Assign I/O operation.
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
err = snd_pcm_hw_params_get_period_wakeup(state->handle,
state->hw_params, &flag);
if (err < 0)
return err;
if (flag) {
if (*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED ||
*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_NONINTERLEAVED) {
state->ops = &xfer_libasound_irq_rw_ops;
} else if (*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED ||
*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED) {
if (snd_pcm_stream(state->handle) == SND_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)
state->ops = &xfer_libasound_irq_mmap_r_ops;
else
state->ops = &xfer_libasound_irq_mmap_w_ops;
} else {
return -ENXIO;
}
} else {
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
if (*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED ||
*access == SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_NONINTERLEAVED) {
if (snd_pcm_stream(state->handle) == SND_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE)
state->ops = &xfer_libasound_timer_mmap_r_ops;
else
state->ops = &xfer_libasound_timer_mmap_w_ops;
} else {
return -ENXIO;
}
}
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
if (state->ops->private_size > 0) {
state->private_data = malloc(state->ops->private_size);
if (state->private_data == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
memset(state->private_data, 0, state->ops->private_size);
}
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
err = state->ops->pre_process(state);
if (err < 0)
return err;
err = configure_sw_params(state, *frames_per_second,
*frames_per_buffer,
state->msec_for_avail_min,
state->msec_for_start_threshold,
state->msec_for_stop_threshold);
if (err < 0) {
logging(state, "Current software parameters:\n");
snd_pcm_sw_params_dump(state->sw_params, state->log);
return err;
}
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
if (xfer->verbose > 0) {
snd_pcm_dump(state->handle, state->log);
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
logging(state, "Scheduling model:\n");
logging(state, " %s\n", sched_model_labels[state->sched_model]);
}
if (state->use_waiter) {
// NOTE: This should be after configuring sw_params due to
// timer descriptor for time-based scheduling model.
err = prepare_waiter(state);
if (err < 0)
return err;
if (xfer->verbose > 0) {
logging(state, "Waiter type:\n");
logging(state,
" %s\n",
waiter_label_from_type(state->waiter_type));
}
}
return 0;
}
static int xfer_libasound_process_frames(struct xfer_context *xfer,
unsigned int *frame_count,
struct mapper_context *mapper,
struct container_context *cntrs)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
int err;
if (state->handle == NULL)
return -ENXIO;
err = state->ops->process_frames(state, frame_count, mapper, cntrs);
if (err < 0) {
if (err == -EAGAIN)
return err;
if (err == -EPIPE && !state->finish_at_xrun) {
// Recover the stream and continue processing
// immediately. In this program -EPIPE comes from
// libasound implementation instead of file I/O.
err = snd_pcm_prepare(state->handle);
}
if (err < 0) {
// TODO: -EIO from libasound for hw PCM node means
// that IRQ disorder. This should be reported to help
// developers for drivers.
logging(state, "Fail to process frames: %s\n",
snd_strerror(err));
}
}
return err;
}
static void xfer_libasound_pause(struct xfer_context *xfer, bool enable)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
snd_pcm_state_t s = snd_pcm_state(state->handle);
int err;
if (state->handle == NULL)
return;
if (enable) {
if (s != SND_PCM_STATE_RUNNING)
return;
} else {
if (s != SND_PCM_STATE_PAUSED)
return;
}
// Not supported. Leave the substream to enter XRUN state.
if (!snd_pcm_hw_params_can_pause(state->hw_params))
return;
err = snd_pcm_pause(state->handle, enable);
if (err < 0 && state->verbose) {
logging(state, "snd_pcm_pause(): %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
}
}
static void xfer_libasound_post_process(struct xfer_context *xfer)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
snd_pcm_state_t pcm_state;
int err;
if (state->handle == NULL)
return;
pcm_state = snd_pcm_state(state->handle);
if (pcm_state != SND_PCM_STATE_OPEN &&
pcm_state != SND_PCM_STATE_DISCONNECTED) {
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
if (snd_pcm_stream(state->handle) == SND_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE ||
state->ops == &xfer_libasound_timer_mmap_w_ops) {
err = snd_pcm_drop(state->handle);
if (err < 0)
logging(state, "snd_pcm_drop(): %s\n",
snd_strerror(err));
} else {
// TODO: this is a bug in kernel land.
if (state->nonblock)
snd_pcm_nonblock(state->handle, 0);
err = snd_pcm_drain(state->handle);
if (state->nonblock)
snd_pcm_nonblock(state->handle, 1);
if (err < 0)
logging(state, "snd_pcm_drain(): %s\n",
snd_strerror(err));
}
}
err = snd_pcm_hw_free(state->handle);
if (err < 0)
logging(state, "snd_pcm_hw_free(): %s\n", snd_strerror(err));
snd_pcm_close(state->handle);
state->handle = NULL;
if (state->ops && state->ops->post_process)
state->ops->post_process(state);
free(state->private_data);
state->private_data = NULL;
// Free cache of content for configuration files so that memory leaks
// are not detected.
snd_config_update_free_global();
}
static void xfer_libasound_destroy(struct xfer_context *xfer)
{
struct libasound_state *state = xfer->private_data;
free(state->node_literal);
free(state->waiter_type_literal);
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
free(state->sched_model_literal);
state->node_literal = NULL;
state->waiter_type_literal = NULL;
axfer: add support for timer-based scheduling model with MMAP operation In 2010, ALSA PCM interface got an flag of hardware parameters to suppress periodical interrupts, according to a request from PulseAudio developer. In typical PCM operation for usual hardware, PCM drivers configure the hardware to generate the periodical interrupts to notify that the same amount of data frames as a period of PCM buffer is actually transferred via serial sound interface. The flag can suppress this if the driver support it. There's some merits of this configuration: - No interrupt context run for PCM substream. The PCM substream is handled in any process context only. No need to care of race conditions between interrupt/process contexts. This is good for developers of drivers and applications. - CPU time is not used for handlers on the interrupt context. The CPU time can be dedicated for the other tasks. This is good in a point of Time Sharing System. - Hardware is not configured to generate interrupts. This is good in a point of reduction of overall power consumption. Disabling period interrupt is used for 'Timer-based scheduling' to consume data frames on PCM buffer independently of interrupt context. As noted, no interrupt context runs for PCM substream, thus any blocking operation is not released. Furthermore, system calls for multiplexed I/O is not also released without timeout. In this scheduling model, applications need to care of available space on PCM buffer by lapse of time, typically by yielding CPU and wait for rescheduling. For the yielding, timeout is calculated for preferable amount of PCM frames to process. This is an additional merit for applications, like sound servers. when an I/O thread of the server wait for the timeout, the other threads can process data frames for server clients. Furthermore, with usage of rewinding/forwarding, applications can achieve low latency between transmission position and handling position even if they uses large size of PCM buffers. But the timeout should be calculated with enough care of hardware capabilities. To disable period interrupt, used hardware should satisfy some requirements for data transmission: 1. Even if drivers don't handle interrupts to queue next data transmission, hardware voluntarily perform the data transmission when needed (typically by requesting DMA automatically). 2. hardware has a capability to report current position of data transmission with enough accuracy against the data transmission. developers refer this as 'granularity'. If hardware can always reports updated position after the data transmission finishes, the granularity equals to the size of period of PCM buffer. 3. a fine size of data transmission in one time. This size is decided depending on configuration of hardware or DMA controller, but for efficiency it may not be one byte. Thus some amount of data frame is transferred by one data transmission. Developers refer this as 'burst-ness'. The timeout should be calculated according to the item 2 and 3, however in current ALSA PCM interface supplemental information is not delivered from drivers to applications. Although at present userspace applications should be written by a speculative way for this point, there's few problems because there're a few hardware which satisfy the above items. However, when more drivers supports this feature, the problem may largely be exposed and bothers application developers. This commit adds an option to use 'timer-based scheduling' for data transmission. This commit adds '--sched-model' option, and the scheduling mode is enabled when 'timer' is assigned to the option by equal sign. Although there's some TODOs, you can see the scheduling mode in this simple program, like: $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -P -d 2 -D hw:0,3 /dev/urandom -f dat -vvv $ axfer transfer --sched-model=timer -C -d 2 -D hw:1,0 /dev/null -r 48000 -vvv Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2018-11-13 07:41:45 +01:00
state->sched_model_literal = NULL;
if (state->hw_params)
snd_pcm_hw_params_free(state->hw_params);
if (state->sw_params)
snd_pcm_sw_params_free(state->sw_params);
state->hw_params = NULL;
state->sw_params = NULL;
if (state->log)
snd_output_close(state->log);
state->log = NULL;
}
static void xfer_libasound_help(struct xfer_context *)
{
printf(
" [BASICS]\n"
" -D, --device select node by name in coniguration space\n"
" -N, --nonblock nonblocking mode\n"
" -M, --mmap use mmap(2) for zero copying technique\n"
" -F, --period-time interval between interrupts (msec unit)\n"
" --period-size interval between interrupts (frame unit)\n"
" -B, --buffer-time size of buffer for frame(msec unit)\n"
" --buffer-size size of buffer for frame(frame unit)\n"
" --waiter-type type of waiter to handle available frames\n"
" --sched-model model of process scheduling\n"
" [SOFTWARE FEATURES]\n"
" -A, --avail-min threshold of frames to wake up process\n"
" -R, --start-delay threshold of frames to start PCM substream\n"
" -T, --stop-delay threshold of frames to stop PCM substream\n"
" [LIBASOUND PLUGIN OPTIONS]\n"
" --disable-resample disable rate conversion for plug plugin\n"
" --disable-channels disable channel conversion for plug plugin\n"
" --disable-format disable format conversion for plug plugin\n"
" --disable-softvol disable software volume for sofvol plugin\n"
" [DEBUG ASSISTANT]\n"
" --fatal-errors finish at XRUN\n"
" --test-nowait busy poll without any waiter\n"
);
}
const struct xfer_data xfer_libasound = {
.s_opts = S_OPTS,
.l_opts = l_opts,
.l_opts_count = ARRAY_SIZE(l_opts),
.ops = {
.init = xfer_libasound_init,
.parse_opt = xfer_libasound_parse_opt,
.validate_opts = xfer_libasound_validate_opts,
.pre_process = xfer_libasound_pre_process,
.process_frames = xfer_libasound_process_frames,
.pause = xfer_libasound_pause,
.post_process = xfer_libasound_post_process,
.destroy = xfer_libasound_destroy,
.help = xfer_libasound_help,
},
.private_size = sizeof(struct libasound_state),
};