1. 06 Feb, 2017 1 commit
    • Takashi Iwai's avatar
      ALSA: x86: Refactor PCM process engine · e1b239f3
      Takashi Iwai authored
      This is again a big rewrite of the driver; now it touches the code to
      process PCM stream transfers.
      
      The most fundamental change is that the driver may support more than
      four periods.  Instead of keeping the same index between both the ring
      buffer (with the fixed four buffer descriptors) and the PCM buffer
      periods, we keep difference indices for both (bd_head and pcm_head
      fields).  In addition, when the periods are more than four, we need to
      track both head and next indices.  That is, we now have three indices:
      bd_head, pcm_head and pcm_filled.
      
      Also, the driver works better for periods < 4, too: the remaining BDs
      out of four are marked as invalid, so that the hardware skips those
      BDs in its loop.
      
      By this flexibility, we can use even ALSA-lib dmix plugin, which
      requires 16 periods as default.
      
      The buffer size could be up to 20bit, so the max buffer size was
      increased accordingly.  However, the buffer pre-allocation is kept as
      the old value (600kB) as default.  The reason is the limited number of
      BDs: since it doesn't suffice for the useful SG page management that
      can fit with the usual page allocator like some other drivers, we have
      to still allocate continuous pages, hence we shouldn't take too big
      memories there.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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