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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Matthew Jordan	a2c912e997	media formats: re-architect handling of media for performance improvements ... In the old times media formats were represented using a bit field. This was fast but had a few limitations. 1. Asterisk was limited in how many formats it could handle. 2. Formats, being a bit field, could not include any attribute information. A format was strictly its type, e.g., "this is ulaw". This was changed in Asterisk 10 (see https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Media+Architecture+Proposal for notes on that work) which led to the creation of the ast_format structure. This structure allowed Asterisk to handle attributes and bundle information with a format. Additionally, ast_format_cap was created to act as a container for multiple formats that, together, formed the capability of some entity. Another mechanism was added to allow logic to be registered which performed format attribute negotiation. Everywhere throughout the codebase Asterisk was changed to use this strategy. Unfortunately, in software, there is no free lunch. These new capabilities came at a cost. Performance analysis and profiling showed that we spend an inordinate amount of time comparing, copying, and generally manipulating formats and their related structures. Basic prototyping has shown that a reasonably large performance improvement could be made in this area. This patch is the result of that project, which overhauled the media format architecture and its usage in Asterisk to improve performance. Generally, the new philosophy for handling formats is as follows: * The ast_format structure is reference counted. This removed a large amount of the memory allocations and copying that was done in prior versions. * In order to prevent race conditions while keeping things performant, the ast_format structure is immutable by convention and lock-free. Violate this tenet at your peril! * Because formats are reference counted, codecs are also reference counted. The Asterisk core generally provides built-in codecs and caches the ast_format structures created to represent them. Generally, to prevent inordinate amounts of module reference bumping, codecs and formats can be added at run-time but cannot be removed. * All compatibility with the bit field representation of codecs/formats has been moved to a compatibility API. The primary user of this representation is chan_iax2, which must continue to maintain its bit-field usage of formats for interoperability concerns. * When a format is negotiated with attributes, or when a format cannot be represented by one of the cached formats, a new format object is created or cloned from an existing format. That format may have the same codec underlying it, but is a different format than a version of the format with different attributes or without attributes. * While formats are reference counted objects, the reference count maintained on the format should be manipulated with care. Formats are generally cached and will persist for the lifetime of Asterisk and do not explicitly need to have their lifetime modified. An exception to this is when the user of a format does not know where the format came from *and* the user may outlive the provider of the format. This occurs, for example, when a format is read from a channel: the channel may have a format with attributes (hence, non-cached) and the user of the format may last longer than the channel (if the reference to the channel is released prior to the format's reference). For more information on this work, see the API design notes: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Media+Format+Rewrite Finally, this work was the culmination of a large number of developer's efforts. Extra thanks goes to Corey Farrell, who took on a large amount of the work in the Asterisk core, chan_sip, and was an invaluable resource in peer reviews throughout this project. There were a substantial number of patches contributed during this work; the following issues/patch names simply reflect some of the work (and will cause the release scripts to give attribution to the individuals who work on them). Reviews: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3814 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3808 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3805 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3803 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3801 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3798 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3800 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3794 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3793 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3792 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3791 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3790 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3789 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3788 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3787 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3786 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3784 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3783 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3778 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3774 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3775 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3772 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3761 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3754 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3753 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3751 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3750 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3748 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3747 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3746 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3742 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3740 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3739 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3738 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3737 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3736 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3734 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3722 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3713 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3703 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3689 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3687 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3674 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3671 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3667 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3665 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3625 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3602 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3519 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3518 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3516 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3515 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3512 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3506 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3413 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3410 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3387 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3388 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3389 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3390 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3321 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3320 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3319 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3318 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3266 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3265 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3234 https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3178 ASTERISK-23114 #close Reported by: mjordan media_formats_translation_core.diff uploaded by kharwell (License 6464) rb3506.diff uploaded by mjordan (License 6283) media_format_app_file.diff uploaded by kharwell (License 6464) misc-2.diff 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rb3689.patch uploaded by mjordan (License 6283) rb3674.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909) rb3671.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909) rb3667.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909) rb3665.patch uploaded by mjordan (License 6283) rb3625.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909) rb3602.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909) format_compatibility-2.diff uploaded by file (License 5000) core.diff uploaded by file (License 5000) git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@419044 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3	11 years ago