From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dimitris Papastamos Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ASoC: Introduce the new caching API Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:23:50 +0000 Message-ID: <1289492631.24548.0.camel@dplaptop> References: <1289469899-5787-1-git-send-email-dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20101111162002.GG6052@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EAA1037F7 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:23:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20101111162002.GG6052@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 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: Mark Brown Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, Liam Girdwood List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 16:20 +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:04:56AM +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. > > Applied, thanks. > > > 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. > > This one in particular would be very good. Yes, I have an idea on how to do that. I will send you a patch at some point. Thanks, Dimitrios