Matthew Jordan
a2c912e997
media formats: re-architect handling of media for performance improvements
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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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mf-app_fax.diff uploaded by file (License 5000)
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ASTERISK-23715
rb3713.patch uploaded by coreyfarrell (License 5909)
rb3689.patch uploaded by mjordan (License 6283)
ASTERISK-23957
rb3722.patch uploaded by mjordan (License 6283)
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ASTERISK-23958
Tested by: jrose
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rb3800.patch uploaded by jrose (License 6182)
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ASTERISK-23959 #close
Tested by: sgriepentrog, mjordan, coreyfarrell
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ASTERISK-23960 #close
Tested by: opticron
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ASTERISK-23966 #close
Tested by: rmudgett
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chan_dahdi.diff uploaded by file (License 5000)
ASTERISK-24064 #close
Tested by: coreyfarrell, mjordan, opticron, file, rmudgett, sgriepentrog, jrose
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moh_cleanup.diff uploaded by opticron (License 6273)
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2014-07-20 22:06:33 +00:00
Mark Michelson
ee21eee7e0
Cache string values of formats on ast_format_cap() to save processing.
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Channel snapshots have string representations of the channel's native formats.
Prior to this change, the format strings were re-created on ever channel snapshot
creation. Since channel native formats rarely change, this was very wasteful.
Now, string representations of formats may optionally be stored on the ast_format_cap
for cases where string representations may be requested frequently. When formats
are altered, the string cache is marked as invalid. When strings are requested, the
cache validity is checked. If the cache is valid, then the cached strings are copied.
If the cache is invalid, then the string cache is rebuilt and copied, and the cache
is marked as being valid again.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2879
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2013-10-03 14:58:16 +00:00
Matthew Jordan
cafc115896
A great big renaming patch
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This patch renames the bridging* files to bridge*. This may seem pedantic
and silly, but it fits better in line with current Asterisk naming conventions:
* channel is not "channeling"
* monitor is not "monitoring"
etc.
A bridge is an object. It is a first class citizen in Asterisk. "Bridging" is
the act of using a bridge on a set of channels - and the API that fulfills that
role is more than just the action.
(closes issue ASTERISK-22130)
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2013-07-25 04:06:32 +00:00
Richard Mudgett
9732112261
Simplify bridge_simple chan join code.
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2013-07-16 18:48:49 +00:00
Richard Mudgett
1267c91315
Extract a useful routine from the softmix bridge technology.
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* Extract a useful routine from the softmix bridge technology for other
technologies. Make other technologies use it if they can.
* Made native and 1-1 bridges write to all parties if the bridge channel
writing the frame into the bridge is NULL. Softmix will also do the same
for frame types that make sense.
* Tweak the bridge write routine return value meaning and adjust the
bridge technologies to match.
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2013-06-21 22:39:27 +00:00
Richard Mudgett
3d63833bd6
Merge in the bridge_construction branch to make the system use the Bridging API.
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Breaks many things until they can be reworked. A partial list:
chan_agent
chan_dahdi, chan_misdn, chan_iax2 native bridging
app_queue
COLP updates
DTMF attended transfers
Protocol attended transfers
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2013-05-21 18:00:22 +00:00
Richard Mudgett
7bb540dc80
More trivial bridge code cleanup.
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* Breaking long lines
* Word wrapping comment blocks.
* Removing redundant initializers.
* Debug message wording.
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2013-01-25 19:29:04 +00:00
Richard Mudgett
e342ffb969
Trivial misc bridge code changes.
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2013-01-09 22:56:08 +00:00
Terry Wilson
ebaf59a656
Opaquification for ast_format structs in struct ast_channel
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Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1770/
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2012-02-24 00:32:20 +00:00
Terry Wilson
57f42bd74f
ast_channel opaquification of pointers and integral types
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Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1753/
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2012-02-20 23:43:27 +00:00
Leif Madsen
a525edea59
Merged revisions 328247 via svnmerge from
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https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.10
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Merged revisions 328209 via svnmerge from
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r328209 | lmadsen | 2011-07-14 16:13:06 -0400 (Thu, 14 Jul 2011) | 6 lines
Introduce <support_level> tags in MODULEINFO.
This change introduces MODULEINFO into many modules in Asterisk in order to show
the community support level for those modules. This is used by changes committed
to menuselect by Russell Bryant recently (r917 in menuselect). More information about
the support level types and what they mean is available on the wiki at
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Module+Support+States
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2011-07-14 20:28:54 +00:00
David Vossel
c26c190711
Asterisk media architecture conversion - no more format bitfields
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This patch is the foundation of an entire new way of looking at media in Asterisk.
The code present in this patch is everything required to complete phase1 of my
Media Architecture proposal. For more information about this project visit the link below.
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Media+Architecture+Proposal
The primary function of this patch is to convert all the usages of format
bitfields in Asterisk to use the new format and format_cap APIs. Functionally
no change in behavior should be present in this patch. Thanks to twilson
and russell for all the time they spent reviewing these changes.
Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1083/
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2011-02-03 16:22:10 +00:00
Joshua Colp
4c9ab0df8c
Merge phase 1 support for the new bridging architecture.
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This commit brings in the bridging core, bridging technologies,
and the ConfBridge application.
For usage information on the ConfBridge application please see
the output of "core show application ConfBridge" from the CLI.
For API documentation please see the doxygen page describing the
architecture and the documentation for each API call.
Review: http://reviewboard.digium.com/r/93/
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2009-03-05 18:18:27 +00:00