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,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [8/11] use-case 2: Audio playback on Android
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:19:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389111587-5923-9-git-send-email-morten.rasmussen@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389111587-5923-1-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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-07 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 16:19 [0/11][REPOST] Energy-aware scheduling use-cases and scheduler issues Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [1/11] issue 1: Missing power topology information in scheduler Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [2/11] issue 2: Energy-awareness for heterogeneous systems Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [3/11] issue 3: No understanding of potential cpu capacity Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-13 21:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-14 10:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-14 16:39 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-14 16:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [4/11] issue 4: Tracking idle states Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [5/11] issue 5: Frequency and uarch invariant task load Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-08 12:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-16 11:16 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [6/11] issue 6: Poor and non-deterministic performance on heterogeneous systems Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [7/11] use-case 1: Webbrowsing on Android Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` Morten Rasmussen [this message]
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [9/11] use-case 3: Video playback " Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [10/11] use-case 4: Game " Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 16:19 ` [11/11] system 1: Saving energy using DVFS Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-20 16:32 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-21 12:14 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-21 12:31 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-20 16:49 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-20 17:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-20 17:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-20 17:47 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-20 18:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-20 19:15 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-21 11:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-20 17:54 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-20 18:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-20 20:44 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-20 18:25 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-21 18:53 ` Kalle Jokiniemi
2014-01-20 18:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-21 11:42 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-01-21 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
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