From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] ASoC: Introduce the new caching API Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:20:03 +0000 Message-ID: <20101111162002.GG6052@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> 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 opensource2.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C231037EE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:20:05 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline 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, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, Liam Girdwood List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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.