Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ALSA: compress_offload: Add SNDRV_COMPRESS_TSTAMP64 ioctl

[Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>]

On 18-08-25, 15:05, Charles Keepax wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 07:59:42AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:47:59 +0200,
> > Vinod Koul wrote:
> > > On 01-08-25, 10:27, Joris Verhaegen wrote:
> > > >  	ret = snd_compr_update_tstamp(stream, &tstamp64);
> > > >  	if (ret == 0) {
> > > > -		snd_compr_tstamp32_from_64(&tstamp32, &tstamp64);
> > > > -		ret = copy_to_user((struct snd_compr_tstamp __user *)arg,
> > > > -				   &tstamp32, sizeof(tstamp32)) ?
> > > > +		if (is_32bit) {
> > > > +			snd_compr_tstamp32_from_64(&tstamp32, &tstamp64);
> > > > +			copy_from = &tstamp32;
> > > > +			copy_size = sizeof(tstamp32);
> > > > +		}
> > > 
> > > Most of the applications and people would be 32bit right now and we
> > > expect this to progressively change, but then this imposes a penalty as
> > > default path is 64 bit, since we expect this ioctl to be called very
> > > frequently, should we do this optimization for 64bit here?
> > 
> > Through a quick glance over the patch, I don't think you'll hit the
> > significant performance loss.  It's merely a few bytes of extra copies
> > before copy_to_user(), after all.  But, of course, it'd be more
> > convincing if anyone can test and give the actual numbers.

That would be better

> I am inclined to agree the impact should be very minimal and the
> only alternative is a more complex implementation. I would vote
> for leaving this as is.

But yes, we can for now, go ahead. It is internal kernel flow can be
adapted anytime :-)

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~Vinod