On 10/12/2019 14:57, Takashi Iwai wrote: > The HD-audio CORB/RIRB communication was programmed in a way that was > documented in the reference in decades ago, which is essentially a > polling in the waiter side. It's working fine but costs CPU cycles on > some platforms that support only slow communications. Also, for some > platforms that had unreliable communications, we put longer wait time > (2 ms), which accumulate quite long time if you execute many verbs in > a shot (e.g. at the initialization or resume phase). > > This patch attempts to improve the situation by introducing the > standard waitqueue in the RIRB waiter side instead of polling. The > test results on my machine show significant improvements. The time > spent for "cat /proc/asound/card*/codec#*" were changed like: > > * Intel SKL + Realtek codec > before the patch: > 0.00user 0.04system 0:00.10elapsed 40.0%CPU > after the patch: > 0.00user 0.01system 0:00.10elapsed 10.0%CPU > > * Nvidia GP107GL + Nvidia HDMI codec > before the patch: > 0.00user 0.00system 0:02.76elapsed 0.0%CPU > after the patch: > 0.00user 0.00system 0:00.01elapsed 17.0%CPU > > So, for Intel chips, the total time is same, while the total time is > greatly reduced (from 2.76 to 0.01s) for Nvidia chips. > The only negative data here is the increase of CPU time for Nvidia, > but this is the unavoidable cost for faster wakeups, supposedly. > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Starting with next-20191217 I am seeing the following error on one of our Tegra platforms ... tegra-hda 3510000.hda: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x404f2d00 Bisect is point to this commit and although it does not cleanly revert, if I revert this and a couple dependencies on top of -next the issue goes away. Any thoughts on what could be going on here? Cheers Jon -- nvpublic _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
