ASoC: dapm: Use more aggressive caching
Currently we cache the number of input and output paths going to/from a
widget only within a power update sequence. But not in between power update
sequences.
But we know how changes to the DAPM graph affect the number of input (form a
source) and output (to a sink) paths of a widget and only need to
recalculate them if a operation has been performed that might have changed
them.
* Adding/removing or connecting/disconnecting a path means that the for
the source of the path the number of output paths can change and for
the sink the number of input paths can change.
* Connecting/disconnecting a widget has the same effect has connecting/
disconnecting all paths of the widget. So for the widget itself the
number of inputs and outputs can change, for all sinks of the widget
the number of inputs can change and for all sources of the widget the
number of outputs can change.
* Activating/Deactivating a stream can either change the number of
outputs on the sources of the widget associated with the stream or the
number of inputs on the sinks.
Instead of always invalidating all cached numbers of input and output paths
for each power up or down sequence this patch restructures the code to only
invalidate the cached numbers when a operation that might change them has
been performed. This can greatly reduce the number of DAPM power checks for
some very common operations.
Since per DAPM operation typically only either change the number of inputs
or outputs the number of path checks is reduced by at least 50%. The number
of neighbor checks is also reduced about the same percentage, but since the
number of neighbors encountered when walking from sink to source is not the
same as when walking from source to sink the actual numbers will slightly
vary from card to card (e.g. for a mixer we see 1 neighbor when walking from
source to sink, but the number of inputs neighbors when walking from source
to sink).
Bigger improvements can be observed for widgets with multiple connected
inputs and output (e.g. mixers probably being the most widespread form of
this). Previously we had to re-calculate the number of inputs and outputs
on all input and output paths. With this change we only have to re-calculate
the number of outputs on the input path that got changed and the number of
inputs on the output paths.
E.g. imagine the following example:
A --> B ----.
v
M --> N --> Z <-- S <-- R
|
v
X
Widget Z has multiple input paths, if any change was made that cause Z to be
marked as dirty the power state of Z has to be re-computed. This requires to
know the number of inputs and outputs of Z, which requires to know the
number of inputs and outputs of all widgets on all paths from or to Z.
Previously this meant re-computing all inputs and outputs of all the path
going into or out of Z. With this patch in place only paths that actually
have changed need to be re-computed.
If the system is idle (or the part of the system affected by the changed
path) the number of path checks drops to either 0 or 1, regardless of how
large or complex the DAPM context is. 0 if there is no connected sink and no
connected source. 1 if there is either a connected source or sink, but not
both. The number of neighbor checks again will scale accordingly and will be
a constant number that is the number of inputs or outputs of the widget for
which we did the path check.
When loading a state file or switching between different profiles typically
multiple mixer and mux settings are changed, so we see the benefit of this
patch multiplied for these kinds of operations.
Testing with the ADAU1761 shows the following changes in DAPM stats for
changing a single Mixer switch for a Mixer with 5 inputs while the DAPM
context is idle.
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 2 12 30
After: 2 1 2
For the same switch, but with a active playback stream the stat changed are
as follows.
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 10 20 54
After: 10 7 21
Cumulative numbers for switching the audio profile which changes 7 controls
while the system is idle:
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 16 80 170
After: 16 7 23
Cumulative numbers for switching the audio profile which changes 7 controls
while playback is active:
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 51 123 273
After: 51 29 109
Starting (or stopping) the playback stream:
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 34 34 117
After: 34 17 69
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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