[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2 v2] ASoC: soc-cache: block based rbtree compression

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 3 May 2011 14:24:20 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:18:47PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but the core doesn't give how linearly it's stored although its
> > storing order influences on the bulk I/O behavior.  In other words,
> > the patches try to put registers partly linearly in magical blocks.
> > But it doesn't guarantee whether the cache block is aligned to what
> > hardware prefers since it's behind the scene.
> 
> Eh?  I don't follow what you're saying at all, sorry.
> 
> The wire formats used by controllers are nailed down by the APIs for the
> relevant buses and the rest of the register I/O infrastructure.  The
> only extra bit the cache needs to worry about is the set of registers
> which are present in a given chip and the cache already has information
> about that (which is what I was telling Dimitris he should use in my
> direct reply to the patch).

Hrm, then I don't understand why changing the cache management changes
the bulk I/O behavior as you described.  What's missing there?


Takashi