On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 18:45 -0400, Mark Brown wrote: > As we discussed previously this can be mitigated against in future by > keeping the last accessed block of memory uncompressed so that we don't > need to do the LZO operations so often when doing a sequence of accesses > to the same area of the register map (this should work well during DAPM > runs since the power bits tend to all be close together, for example). > Timeouts or a different chunking algorithm could be used to reduce the > memory cost of this, though we need to be careful we don't overengineer. Yes that's the idea. I was also thinking, that during sync() we can have another flag like cache_bypass which would be set so when we are writing out the cache to the hardware, we don't write back to the cache again. Thanks, Dimitrios _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
