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From: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, markgross@thegnar.org,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	morten.rasmussen@arm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [8/11] use-case 2: Audio playback on Android
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:45:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1387557951-21750-9-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387557951-21750-1-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com>

Audio playback is a low load periodic application that has little/no
variation in period and load over time. It consists of tasks involved in
decoding the audio stream and communicating with audio frameworks and
drivers.

Performance Criteria

All tasks must have completed before the next request to fill the audio
buffer. Most modern hardware should be able to deal with the load even
at the lowest P-state.

Task behaviour

The task load pattern period is dictated by the audio interrupt. On an
example modern ARM based system this occurs every ~6 ms. The decoding
work is triggered every fourth interrupt, i.e. a ~24 ms period. No tasks
are scheduled at the intermediate interrupts. The tasks involved are:

Main audio framework task (AudioOut): The first task to be scheduled
after the interrupt and continues running until decoding has completed.
That is ~5 ms. Runs at nice=-19.

Audio framework task 2 (AudioTrack): Woken up by the main task ~250-300
us after the main audio task is scheduled. Runs for ~300 us at nice=-16.

Decoder task (mp3.decoder): Woken up by the audio task 2 when that
finishes (serialized). Runs for ~1 ms until it wakes a third Android
task on which it blocks and continues for another ~150 us afterwards
(serialized). Runs at nice=-2.

Android task 3 (OMXCallbackDisp): Woken by decoder task. Runs for ~300
us at nice=-2.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-20 16:45 [0/11] Energy-aware scheduling use-cases and scheduler issues Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [1/11] issue 1: Missing power topology information in scheduler Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-22 15:19   ` mark gross
2013-12-30 14:00     ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-13 20:23       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-14 16:21         ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-14 17:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [2/11] issue 2: Energy-awareness for heterogeneous systems Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [3/11] issue 3: No understanding of potential cpu capacity Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [4/11] issue 4: Tracking idle states Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [5/11] issue 5: Frequency and uarch invariant task load Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [6/11] issue 6: Poor and non-deterministic performance on heterogeneous systems Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [7/11] use-case 1: Webbrowsing on Android Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` Morten Rasmussen [this message]
2014-01-07 12:15   ` [8/11] use-case 2: Audio playback " Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 12:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 16:02       ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 15:55     ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [9/11] use-case 3: Video " Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [10/11] use-case 4: Game " Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 16:45 ` [11/11] system 1: Saving energy using DVFS Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-22 16:28 ` [0/11] Energy-aware scheduling use-cases and scheduler issues mark gross
2013-12-30 12:10   ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-12 16:47     ` mark gross
2014-01-13 12:04       ` Catalin Marinas
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-07 16:19 [0/11][REPOST] " Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [8/11] use-case 2: Audio playback on Android Morten Rasmussen

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