This saves ~300K of kernel memory for each quad or dual span VPM. Due
to the fact that this change disables caching of the NLP words (among
other things), the time to disable the echocans appears to have
increased by ~1ms.
Before this change:
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0) ! 356.498 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- disable
0) ! 387.762 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- enable
0) ! 429.839 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- disable
]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free -k
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2005352 228368 1776984 0 132
5540
-/+ buffers/cache: 222696 1782656
Swap: 983036 0 983036
After this change:
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0) ! 1109.515 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- disable
0) ! 339.017 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- enable
0) ! 1431.460 us | vpm450m_setecmode(); <--- disable
]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free -k
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2005352 228080 1777272 0 112
5484
-/+ buffers/cache: 222484 1782868
Swap: 983036 0 983036
Signed-off-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
git-svn-id: http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk@9750 a0bf4364-ded3-4de4-8d8a-66a801d63aff
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