[alsa-devel] [RFC] ALSA: vsnd: Add Xen para-virtualized frontend driver

[Oleksandr Andrushchenko]

On 11/02/2017 11:44 AM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> On Oct 30 2017 15:33, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
>> This is an attempt to summarize previous discussions on Xen para-virtual
>> sound driver.
>>
>> A first attempt has been made to upstream the driver [1] which 
>> brought number
>> of fundamental questions, one of the biggest ones was that the 
>> frontend driver
>> has no means to synchronize its period elapsed event with the host 
>> driver,
>> but uses software emulation on the guest side [2] with a timer.
>> In order to address this a change to the existing Xen para-virtual sound
>> protocol [3] was proposed to fill this gap [4] and remove emulation:
>> 1. Introduced a new event channel from back to front
>> 2. New event with number of bytes played/captured (XENSND_EVT_CUR_POS,
>> to be used for sending snd_pcm_period_elapsed at frontend
>> (in Linux implementation, sent in bytes, not frames to make the protocol
>> generic and consistent)
>> 3. New request for playback/capture control (XENSND_OP_TRIGGER) with
>> start/pause/stop/resume sub-ops.
>>
>> Along with these changes other comments on the driver were addressed,
>> e.g. split into smaller chunks, moved the driver from misc to xen 
>> etc. [5].
>>
>> Hope, this helps to get the full picture of what was discussed and 
>> makes it
>> possible to move forward: if the approach seems ok, then I'll start
>> upstreaming the changes to the sndif protocol and then will send the 
>> updated
>> version of the driver for the further review.
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> Generally, receiving no reactions means that readers/reviewers don't 
> get enough information for your idea yet. (Of course, there's a 
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will do
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> Regards
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> Takashi Sakamoto
Thank you,
Oleksandr