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Unverified Commit 9983ac49 authored by Kai Vehmanen's avatar Kai Vehmanen Committed by Mark Brown
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ASoC: SOF: relax PCM period and buffer size constraints



Current SOF implementation limits period and buffer sizes to multiples
of period_min. Period_min is defined in topology, but is in practise set
to align with the SOF DSP timer tick (typically 1ms).

While this approach helps user-space to avoid period sizes, which are
not aligned to the DSP timer tick, it causes problems to applications
which want to align data processing size to that of ALSA period size.
One example is JACK audio server, which limits period sizes to power of
two values.

Other ALSA drivers where audio data transfer is driven by a timer tick,
like USB, do not constraint period and buffer sizes to exact multiple of
the timer tick.

To align SOF to follow the same behaviour, drop the additional alignment
constraints. As a side-effect, this patch can cause irregularity to
period wakeup timing. This happens when application chooses settings
which were previously forbidden. For example, if application configures
period size to 2^14 bytes and audio config of S32_LE/2ch/48000Hz, one
period represents 42.667ms of audio. Without this patch, this
configuration is not allowed by SOF. With the patch applied,
configuration is allowed but the wakeups are paced by the DSP timer
tick, which is typically 1ms. Application will see period wakeups with a
42/43/42/43ms repeating pattern.

Both approaches are valid within ALSA context, but relaxing the
constraints is better aligned with existing applications and other ALSA
drivers like USB audio.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRanjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118140545.2138895-1-kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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