From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Liam Girdwood Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ASoC: Introduce the new caching API Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:39:29 +0000 Message-ID: <1289475569.3273.7.camel@odin> References: <1289469899-5787-1-git-send-email-dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f179.google.com (mail-wy0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202D024350 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:39:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by wyb34 with SMTP id 34so90390wyb.38 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:39:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1289469899-5787-1-git-send-email-dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Dimitris Papastamos Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Mark Brown , patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 10:04 +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > This patch series introduces the new caching API. The idea behind this > caching interface is that we can provide different means of organizing > and accessing the register cache. This is useful for large and sparse > register maps, where one can use some kind of compression algorithm to > reduce the memory footprint. The caching API is designed in such way to > eliminate the need for modifying any existing drivers. > > TODO: > - Memory usage statistics, to make it easier to select the proper caching > technique. > - Support for bulk reads/writes. > - Overridable caching behaviour from the machine driver. > - Optimize certain CPU intensive paths. > - Ensure proper locking in init()/exit()/sync(). > > Dimitris Papastamos (3): > ASoC: soc-cache: Add support for flat register caching > ASoC: soc-cache: Add support for LZO register caching > ASoC: soc-cache: Add support for rbtree based register caching > Acked-by: Liam Girdwood -- Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer. http://www.slimlogic.co.uk