[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v6 00/25] Optimize latency handling in module-loopback

[Georg Chini]

Hi,

finally I got around to split the loopback patches. The current version has
a lot of improvements over the last version and hopefully incorporates the
comments from Tanu's previous review. Main features of the new code are:

- Reduce latency jitter by a factor 100 from around 30 ms to 300 usec
- Implement modified P-controller and adaptive re-sampling
- Underrun protection
- Latency initialisation to avoid underruns
- Adjust to specified latency if possible, else use minimum possible latency
- Allow smooth switching between different sources and sinks
- 3 new parameters

The intermediate results are tested to compile but not for functionality.

More details can be found in the individual commit messages. The theoretical
background of the controller is covered in the document "rate_estimator.odt"
which I will send in a separate mail. The document also contains some results
achieved with the new code.

Georg Chini (25):
  loopback: Save time stamps during latency snapshots
  loopback: Improve latency estimation in snapshots
  loopback: Improve latency estimation
  loopback: Change memblockq length
  loopback: Move timer restart and snapshots to time callback
  loopback: Restart timer after 1/3 second
  loopback: Adjust rate based on latency difference
  loopback: Stop tracking max_request and min_memblockq_length
  loopback: Refactor latency initialization
  loopback: Do not skip audio at startup
  loopback: Calculate and track minimum possible latency
  loopback: Implement underrun protection
  sample.c: Allow module-loopback to exceed PA_RATE_MAX
  source.c, sink.c: Implement
    pa_{source,sink}_get_raw_latency_within_thread() calls
  alsa-{source,sink}.c: Handle PA_{SOURCE,SINK}_MESSAGE_GET_RAW_LATENCY
  loopback: Reset sink input rate when source or sink changes
  loopback: Track and use average adjust time
  loopback: Limit controller step size to 2.01‰
  loopback: Implement adaptive re-sampling
  loopback: Add latency prediction and Kalman filter
  loopback: Track prediction error; debug and cosmetic changes
  loopback: Allow shorter adjust_time
  loopback: Add low_device_latency parameter
  loopback: Add adjust_threshold_usec parameter
  loopback: Add log_interval parameter

 src/modules/alsa/alsa-sink.c   |  25 +-
 src/modules/alsa/alsa-source.c |  20 +-
 src/modules/module-loopback.c  | 786 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 src/pulse/sample.c             |   5 +-
 src/pulsecore/sink.c           |  30 ++
 src/pulsecore/sink.h           |   2 +
 src/pulsecore/source.c         |  30 ++
 src/pulsecore/source.h         |   2 +
 8 files changed, 732 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)

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