ALSA: control: Use xarray for faster lookups
The control elements are managed in a single linked list and we traverse the whole list for matching each numid or ctl id per every inquiry of a control element. This is OK-ish for a small number of elements but obviously it doesn't scale. Especially the matching with the ctl id takes time because it checks each field of the snd_ctl_id element, e.g. the name string is matched with strcmp(). This patch adds the hash tables with Xarray for improving the lookup speed of a control element. There are two xarray tables added to the card; one for numid and another for ctl id. For the numid, we use the numid as the index, while for the ctl id, we calculate a hash key. The lookup is done via a single xa_load() execution. As long as the given control element is found on the Xarray table, that's fine, we can give back a quick lookup result. The problem is when no entry hits on the table, and for this case, we have a slight optimization. Namely, the driver checks whether we had a collision on Xarray table, and do a fallback search (linear lookup of the full entries) only if a hash key collision happened beforehand. So, in theory, the inquiry for a non-existing element might take still time even with this patch in a worst case, but this must be pretty rare. The feature is enabled via CONFIG_SND_CTL_FAST_LOOKUP, which is turned on as default. For simplicity, the option can be turned off only when CONFIG_EXPERT is set ("You are expert? Then you manage 1000 knobs"). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028130027.18764-1-tiwai@suse.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609180504.775-1-tiwai@suse.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1653813866.git.quic_rbankapu@quicinc.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610064537.18660-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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