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
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