Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ALSA patch] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm: Enable MMAP status and control for ARMv7 and ARMv8 | From | Timo Wischer <> | Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:42:35 +0200 |
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Hello all,
it would be great if someone from Renesas or someone else could acknowledge the patch. I think it is a good improvement especially when using ALSA plugins like dmix.
Feel free to forward if you know someone who is aware of the cache coherency of ARM architectures.
Best regards *Timo Wischer* Engineering Software Multimedia (ADITG/ESM)
Tel. +49 5121 49 6938 On 4/17/19 11:40 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:30:10 +0200, > Timo Wischer wrote: >> On 4/17/19 11:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:46:11 +0200, >>> <twischer@de.adit-jv.com> wrote: >>>> From: Timo Wischer <twischer@de.adit-jv.com> >>>> >>>> Since ARMv7 hardware cache coherence is supported. >>>> "The SCU maintains coherency between the individual data caches in the >>>> Cortex-A5 MPCore processor using a variation of the MOESI protocol" [1]. >>>> >>>> Therefore this patch enables the MMAP access to the status and control >>>> structures. This avoids HWSYYNC ioctl calls and therefore lowers the CPU >>>> usage. >>>> >>>> [1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0434c/ >>>> BABJECBF.html >>> Interesting... I thought it would never work properly on ARM. >>> If it really works like that, I'd happily apply the change. >>> But I'd like to hear a confirmation from ARM people before merging >>> such an intensive change. >> Hi Takashi, >> >> do I need to send this patch to any other mailing list or do you think >> some corresponding guy is already on the lists I have used? > Well, maybe we need to ping ARM people if no one on the lists you > Cc'ed give comments. Let's see. > > > Takashi > >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Takashi >>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Timo Wischer <twischer@de.adit-jv.com> >>>> --- >>>> sound/core/pcm_native.c | 3 ++- >>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c >>>> index 1d84529..b8019ef 100644 >>>> --- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c >>>> +++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c >>>> @@ -3225,7 +3225,8 @@ static __poll_t snd_pcm_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) >>>> * Only on coherent architectures, we can mmap the status and the control records >>>> * for effcient data transfer. On others, we have to use HWSYNC ioctl... >>>> */ >>>> -#if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_PPC) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) >>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_PPC) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA) || \ >>>> + (defined(CONFIG_ARM) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_V7)) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64) >>>> /* >>>> * mmap status record >>>> */ >>>> -- >>>> 2.7.4 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Patch mailing list >>>> Patch@alsa-project.org >>>> https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/patch >>>>
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