slow snd_rawmidi_drain() for VirMidi devcies
Stefan Sauer
st.kost at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 20:53:33 CET 2022
>From 6b97042bc91ebee267cbb05e6b937cbab5502f61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Sauer <ensonic at google.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 20:44:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: seq: virmidi: Add a drain operation
If a driver does not supply a drain operation for outputs, a default code
path will execute msleep(50). Especially for a virtual midi device
this severely limits the throughput.
This implementation for the virtual midi driver simply flushes the output
workqueue.
---
sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c b/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
index 4abc38c70cae..1d708dc20443 100644
--- a/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
+++ b/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c
@@ -262,6 +262,16 @@ static int snd_virmidi_output_close(struct
snd_rawmidi_substream *substream)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * drain output work queue
+ */
+static void snd_virmidi_output_drain(struct snd_rawmidi_substream
*substream)
+{
+ struct snd_virmidi *vmidi = substream->runtime->private_data;
+
+ flush_work(&vmidi->output_work);
+}
+
/*
* subscribe callback - allow output to rawmidi device
*/
@@ -336,6 +346,7 @@ static const struct snd_rawmidi_ops
snd_virmidi_output_ops = {
.open = snd_virmidi_output_open,
.close = snd_virmidi_output_close,
.trigger = snd_virmidi_output_trigger,
+ .drain = snd_virmidi_output_drain,
};
/*
--
2.34.1
Am Mi., 5. Jan. 2022 um 15:13 Uhr schrieb Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
>
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:39:05 +0100,
> Stefan Sauer wrote:
> >
> > - 28,78% 0,00% rawmidi_alsa [snd_rawmidi] [k]
> > snd_rawmidi_drain_output
> > - snd_rawmidi_drain_output
> > - 26,59% msleep
> > schedule_timeout
> > schedule
> > + __schedule
> > + 2,13% schedule_timeout
> >
> > Seems to be because of:
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/sound/core/rawmidi.c#L244
> > if (substream->ops->drain)
> > substream->ops->drain(substream);
> > else
> > msleep(50);
> >
> > It see what fileops have no drain impl:
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/sound/core/rawmidi.c#L1708
> > and I see
> >
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/sound/core/seq/seq_virmidi.c#L329
> > that define no drain op. Not which ones are actually used here :/
> >
> > The docs confirm teh 50 ms wait though:
> >
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst#drain-callback
> >
> > would it make sense to have a dummy drain function for the seq_virmidi
output
> > ops?
>
> Yes, a proper drain implementation is definitely better.
> I guess just calling flush_work(&vmidi->output_work) there would
> suffice.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > Am Di., 4. Jan. 2022 um 16:54 Uhr schrieb Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>:
> >
> > On Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:49:13 +0100,
> > Stefan Sauer wrote:
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > I've tried to link BitwigStudio to the webapp cables.gl over
virmidi.
> > > Unfortunately Bitwig Studio only supports rawmidi. What I
discovered is
> > > that there is a strange slowness when sending data to virmidi
caused
> > > by snd_rawmidi_drain().
> > >
> > > I've posted two tiny, self-contained c apps to:
> > > https://gist.github.com/ensonic/c7588b87fa6c1fa94a8f753b1e0aa394
> > > See some examples below. 2 observations:
> > > * snd_rawmidi_type() is *not* reporting virmidi as VIRTUAL
> > > * snd_rawmidi_drain() takes about 60ms! on virtual vs. less that
0.1 ms
> > on
> > > usb midi (I checked all my hw midi and the worst was avg=1ms on
physical
> > > midi image unitor8)
> > >
> > > When comparing the implementations:
> > >
> >
https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/blob/master/src/rawmidi/rawmidi_virt.c#L173
> > >
> >
https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/blob/master/src/rawmidi/rawmidi_hw.c#L164
> > > I see that the hw one results in an IOCTL which I can see when
striking
> > the
> > > code and I wonder if this is the root cause? Why is
rawmidi_virt.c not
> > used
> > > for virmidi?
> > > >From poking at snd_rawmidi_open_conf() I have not yet figured
where
> > this is
> > > decided ....
> > >
> > > Stefan
> > >
> > > > amidi -l
> > > Dir Device Name
> > > IO hw:0,0,0 Scarlett 18i20 USB MIDI 1
> > > IO hw:3,0,0 nanoKEY2 nanoKEY2 _ KEYBOARD
> > > IO hw:5,0,0 nanoKONTROL nanoKONTROL _ SLIDE
> > > IO hw:10,0 Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
> > > IO hw:11,0 Virtual Raw MIDI (16 subdevices)
> > >
> > > # using direct i/o to virmidi - all good
> > > > ./rawmidi_oss /dev/midi11 0
> > > Using device '/dev/midi11' without draining
> > > write took min= 0.0015 ms, avg= 0.0016 ms, max= 0.0110 ms
> > > > ./rawmidi_oss /dev/midi11 1
> > > Using device '/dev/midi11' with draining
> > > write took min= 0.0015 ms, avg= 0.0017 ms, max= 0.0101 ms
> > > drain took min= 0.0001 ms, avg= 0.0001 ms, max= 0.0008 ms
> > >
> > > # using snd_rawmidi to virmidi - slow drain operations
> > > > ./rawmidi_alsa hw:11,0 0
> > > Using device 'hw:11,0' without draining
> > > SND_RAWMIDI_TYPE_HW
> > > write took min= 0.0010 ms, avg= 0.0011 ms, max= 0.0056 ms
> > > > ./rawmidi_alsa hw:11,0 1
> > > Using device 'hw:11,0' with draining
> > > SND_RAWMIDI_TYPE_HW
> > > write took min= 0.0016 ms, avg= 0.0040 ms, max= 0.0077 ms
> > > drain took min= 55.9951 ms, avg= 60.4330 ms, max= 64.0653 ms
> > >
> > > # using snd_rawmidi to usb hw - all good
> > > > ./rawmidi_alsa hw:3,0 0
> > > Using device 'hw:3,0' without draining
> > > SND_RAWMIDI_TYPE_HW
> > > write took min= 0.0012 ms, avg= 0.0015 ms, max= 0.0121 ms
> > > > ./rawmidi_alsa hw:3,0 1
> > > Using device 'hw:3,0' with draining
> > > SND_RAWMIDI_TYPE_HW
> > > write took min= 0.0024 ms, avg= 0.0032 ms, max= 0.0110 ms
> > > drain took min= 0.0293 ms, avg= 0.0636 ms, max= 0.2277 ms
> >
> > This kind of thing needs profiling. You can try perf or whatever
> > available, and identify which call takes long. My wild guess is
> > something about snd_seq_sync_output_queue(), maybe poll syscall
takes
> > unexpected long.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> >
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