[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: add support for disabling period irq

Pierre-Louis Bossart bossart.nospam at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 23:12:53 CET 2010


Merged and cleaned patch based on earlier patches posted
on alsa-devel by Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> and
Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at intel.com>

This patch disables period interrupts which are not
needed when the application relies on a system timer
to wake-up and refill the ring buffer. The behavior of
the driver is left unchanged, and interrupts are only
disabled if the application requests this configuration.
The behavior in case of underruns is slightly different,
instead of being detected during the period interrupts the
underruns are detected when the application calls
snd_pcm_update_avail, which in turns forces a refresh of the
hw pointer and shows the buffer is empty.

More specifically this patch makes a lot of sense when
PulseAudio relies on timer-based scheduling to access audio
devices such as HDAudio or Intel SST. Disabling interrupts
removes two unwanted wake-ups due to period elapsed events
in low-power playback modes. It also simplifies PulseAudio
voice modules used for speech calls.

To quote Lennart "This patch looks very interesting and
desirable. This is something have long been waiting for."

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at intel.com>
---
 core/pcm_lib.c          |    8 ++++++--
 core/pcm_native.c       |    6 ++++++
 include/asound.h        |    4 ++++
 include/pcm.h           |    1 +
 pci/hda/hda_intel.c     |    9 ++++++---
 pci/oxygen/oxygen_pcm.c |   14 ++++++++++----
 6 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/pcm_lib.c b/core/pcm_lib.c
index a1707cc..4963d8f 100644
--- a/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 			   (unsigned long)runtime->hw_ptr_base);
 	}
 	/* something must be really wrong */
-	if (delta >= runtime->buffer_size + runtime->period_size) {
+	if (delta >= runtime->buffer_size + runtime->period_size &&
+            !runtime->no_period_irq) {
 		hw_ptr_error(substream,
 			       "Unexpected hw_pointer value %s"
 			       "(stream=%i, pos=%ld, new_hw_ptr=%ld, "
@@ -395,6 +396,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	 */
 	if (runtime->hw.info & SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH)
 		goto no_jiffies_check;
+        if (runtime->no_period_irq)
+                goto no_jiffies_check;
 	hdelta = delta;
 	if (hdelta < runtime->delay)
 		goto no_jiffies_check;
@@ -431,7 +434,8 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 		hw_base = new_hw_ptr - (new_hw_ptr % runtime->buffer_size);
 	}
  no_jiffies_check:
-	if (delta > runtime->period_size + runtime->period_size / 2) {
+	if (delta > runtime->period_size + runtime->period_size / 2 &&
+            !runtime->no_period_irq) {
 		hw_ptr_error(substream,
 			     "Lost interrupts? %s"
 			     "(stream=%i, delta=%ld, new_hw_ptr=%ld, "
diff --git a/core/pcm_native.c b/core/pcm_native.c
index 8bc7cb3..92c8c59 100644
--- a/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -412,6 +412,12 @@ static int snd_pcm_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 			goto _error;
 	}
 
+        if (params->info & SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ) 
+                runtime->no_period_irq = !!(params->flags &
+                                            SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAMS_NO_PERIOD_IRQ);
+        else
+                runtime->no_period_irq = 0;
+        
 	runtime->access = params_access(params);
 	runtime->format = params_format(params);
 	runtime->subformat = params_subformat(params);
diff --git a/include/asound.h b/include/asound.h
index a1803ec..d4b5f2d 100644
--- a/include/asound.h
+++ b/include/asound.h
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ typedef int __bitwise snd_pcm_subformat_t;
 #define SNDRV_PCM_INFO_HALF_DUPLEX	0x00100000	/* only half duplex */
 #define SNDRV_PCM_INFO_JOINT_DUPLEX	0x00200000	/* playback and capture stream are somewhat correlated */
 #define SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START	0x00400000	/* pcm support some kind of sync go */
+#define SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ    0x00800000      /* period interrupt can be disabled */
 #define SNDRV_PCM_INFO_FIFO_IN_FRAMES	0x80000000	/* internal kernel flag - FIFO size is in frames */
 
 typedef int __bitwise snd_pcm_state_t;
@@ -334,6 +335,9 @@ typedef int snd_pcm_hw_param_t;
 #define	SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_LAST_INTERVAL	SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_TICK_TIME
 
 #define SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAMS_NORESAMPLE	(1<<0)	/* avoid rate resampling */
+#define SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAMS_EXPORT_BUFFER      (1<<1)  /* export buffer */
+#define SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAMS_NO_PERIOD_IRQ      (1<<2)  /* disable period
+                                                          interrupts */
 
 struct snd_interval {
 	unsigned int min, max;
diff --git a/include/pcm.h b/include/pcm.h
index dfd9b76..9abb4aa 100644
--- a/include/pcm.h
+++ b/include/pcm.h
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ struct snd_pcm_runtime {
 	unsigned int info;
 	unsigned int rate_num;
 	unsigned int rate_den;
+        bool no_period_irq;
 
 	/* -- SW params -- */
 	int tstamp_mode;		/* mmap timestamp is updated */
diff --git a/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index 38b063e..9f456a8 100644
--- a/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,8 @@ static int azx_setup_periods(struct azx *chip,
 			pos_adj = 0;
 		} else {
 			ofs = setup_bdle(substream, azx_dev,
-					 &bdl, ofs, pos_adj, 1);
+					 &bdl, ofs, pos_adj,
+                                         !substream->runtime->no_period_irq);
 			if (ofs < 0)
 				goto error;
 		}
@@ -1239,7 +1240,8 @@ static int azx_setup_periods(struct azx *chip,
 					 period_bytes - pos_adj, 0);
 		else
 			ofs = setup_bdle(substream, azx_dev, &bdl, ofs,
-					 period_bytes, 1);
+					 period_bytes,
+                                         !substream->runtime->no_period_irq);
 		if (ofs < 0)
 			goto error;
 	}
@@ -1507,7 +1509,8 @@ static struct snd_pcm_hardware azx_pcm_hw = {
 				 /* No full-resume yet implemented */
 				 /* SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME |*/
 				 SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE |
-				 SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START),
+				 SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START |
+                                 SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ),
 	.formats =		SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE,
 	.rates =		SNDRV_PCM_RATE_48000,
 	.rate_min =		48000,
diff --git a/pci/oxygen/oxygen_pcm.c b/pci/oxygen/oxygen_pcm.c
index 8146674..a32ee97 100644
--- a/pci/oxygen/oxygen_pcm.c
+++ b/pci/oxygen/oxygen_pcm.c
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ static const struct snd_pcm_hardware oxygen_stereo_hardware = {
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE |
-		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START,
+		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START |
+                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ,
 	.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE |
 		   SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
 	.rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000 |
@@ -65,7 +66,8 @@ static const struct snd_pcm_hardware oxygen_multichannel_hardware = {
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE |
-		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START,
+		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START |
+                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ,
 	.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE |
 		   SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S32_LE,
 	.rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000 |
@@ -91,7 +93,8 @@ static const struct snd_pcm_hardware oxygen_ac97_hardware = {
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
 		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE |
-		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START,
+		SNDRV_PCM_INFO_SYNC_START |
+                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_NO_PERIOD_IRQ,
 	.formats = SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE,
 	.rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_48000,
 	.rate_min = 48000,
@@ -530,7 +533,10 @@ static int oxygen_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	oxygen_set_bits8(chip, OXYGEN_DMA_FLUSH, channel_mask);
 	oxygen_clear_bits8(chip, OXYGEN_DMA_FLUSH, channel_mask);
 
-	chip->interrupt_mask |= channel_mask;
+        if (substream->runtime->no_period_irq)
+               chip->interrupt_mask &= ~channel_mask;
+        else
+                chip->interrupt_mask |= channel_mask;
 	oxygen_write16(chip, OXYGEN_INTERRUPT_MASK, chip->interrupt_mask);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&chip->reg_lock);
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.2.3



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