[gst-devel] alsasink/mmap ?

[Bossart Pierre-Louis-B05224]

Hi everyone,
I wonder why alsasink does not rely on the mmap() utilities provided by
alsa, namely snd_pcm_mmap_begin() and snd_pcm_mmap_commit(). If my
understanding is correct, the audio data provided to alsasink is first
copied in a ring buffer, then passed to alsa using snd_pcm_writei(),
which results in an additional copy from user to kernel space. For
embedded low-power devices with dedicated internal ram for audio, this
does not make a lot of sense, you want to write directly incoming data
into the hardware buffer.
 
I understand though that not all audio devices support mmap, but looking
at the cvs repository it does look like mmap was an option in gstreamer
several years ago, and it disappeared in version 1.40 of gstalsasink.c.
Does anyone know why this support was removed ? And how difficult it
would be to add it again ?
 
Thanks for your feedback.
 
Regards,
- Pierre
 
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