We have various modules that set the priority higher than the dummy and
freewheel driver (ffado, netjack,...). This makes it impossible to use
the freewheel driver on them.
We handeled "arg1 arg2 ... " before and used to split between spaces to
get the arguments for execvp but that doesn't work so well when there
are arguments with spaces.
Instead use JSON parsing to get the array of arguments. This make it
possible to use [ arg1 arg2 .. ] and quote each arg separately. You
can still use the old method and even double escape:
"\"arg1\" \"arg2 with spaces\"" or
[ "arg1" "arg2 with spaces" ]
Add config options to create and start multiple data loops, each with
their own priority and thread affinity if requested.
Make it possible to assign loop.classes to the data-loops. Use the
node.loop.class to find a data-loop for the node of the same class. Try
to evenly spread the nodes over the available matching loops.
With this, it is possible to separate the processing of the nodes
depending on the classes, like audio/video and improve concurency on
the server.
No attempt is done yet to move nodes between loops or to move
independent nodes to separate data loops.
Fixes#3969
Add a -P (--properties) option to create the context with custom
properties. This can be used to control the modules that are loaded, for
example when they have conditions.
The min should always be 1. We have other ways of bumping the number of
buffers to 2, like the ASYNC allocation flag which we can set if we are
also doing some async scheduling. We could make this an option later.
Otherwise, we would also allocate 2 buffers by default between the mixer
and the node, which is unnecessary.
Add link.min-buffers option to set the minimum amount of buffers to
create for links. Set this by default to 2 because we really need two
now in case the sink xruns and does async mixing.
Make this an option because in low-memory cases and when xruns are not
expected, we can set this to 1.
Add pw_conf_section_update_props_rules() that will not only update the
properties of a section but wil also apply rules in section.rules and
match against the context properties.
Use this by default when using pw_context_conf_update_props().
Add a new method to get a string name of the VM type. Place the
cpu.vm.name in the context properties.
This makes it possible to deprecate the vm.overrides with something more
flexible based on rules. Update the conf files and docs to refect this.
Remove some of the hardcoded values (the absolute smallest buffer size,
independent on the sample rate) to a config option. Set it to the
default value of 4, like what it was before.
Change the hardcoded absolute lowest limit to 1 because anything else
does not make sense.
Enforce the quantum-floor when calculating the final graph quantum.
Fixes#3908
Add a monitor.passthrough option. This will pass all latency information
directly between the port and its monitor ports.
This is interesting when the adapter (and audioconvert) is used with a
null-audio-sink that simply forwards the data to a real sink/souce. In
that case, we want the sink/source latency to be passed unmodified.
Set the monitor.passthrough on the pulseaudio null-sink because
a passthrough virtual sink is the most likely use case for this.
Add some monitor.passthrough default config where it makes sense.
Fixes#3888
node.sync-group can contain a list of strings. When a node in the graph
sets node.sync = true, it will be scheduled with all of the other nodes with
common node.sync-group strings. By default all nodes are placed in
group.sync.0 except the freewheel and dummy driver.
Use this to ensure that all nodes are grouped under the same driver
(that is not the freewheel and dummy driver) as soon as the transport is
started so that the transport is visible to all nodes from the same
sync-groups. We also don't deactive the sync-group anymore for the node,
even if the transport is stopped, to avoid driver changes and transport
jumps.
When the node that activated the sync/transport is destroyed, things are
restored to their original state. Note that this is different from JACK
where starting the transport outlives the application and always needs
to be explicitly stopped again. We can't really do this (by default) because
it leaves the graph in an unnatural state with all devices in sync.
The reason for the node.sync-group is that it is possible to still have N
different subgraphs with a separate transports by manually specifying
the node.sync-group.
It's also slightly different from the node.group, that is always active.
The sync-group is something you only want to enable in specific cases
because it groups drivers together and enables adaptive resampling etc.
It's also possible to place this option in the jack.conf file to
automatically sync all devices and apps as soon as a jack app is started.
Fixes#3850
Make a rtprio-server and rtprio-client option. Leave the server
priority by default to 88 but lower client priority to 83. JACK
does something similar by setting clients to rtprio-server - 5.
Make module-rt use the client priority by default and bump the server
priority explicitly in the config file.
Leave the pulse-server to the default rtprio-client, there is no reason
to lower this any further because it is really just a regular client.
Bump the ffado packetizer thread to rtprio-server + 5 because that is
also what JACK does.
88 is still much higher than the value of 60 that JACK uses in
Fedora but now this is at least configurable.
Add a new property that controls how connections between other ports are
handled. This can be used to block jack apps from connecting or
disconnecting port they don't own.
Move configuration of initial Params from the adapter to the node to
make it more generally useful.
Add the same device.param config to devices.
This makes it possible to configure the default settings statically
while creating the nodes and devices.
Make it possible to wrap nodes created by a device in a wrapper such
as adapter.
Update the minimal.conf to use udev to detect and configure devices and
nodes. Add a config switch to switch back to hardcoded config.
Variables enclosed with @ are replaced with the value of the variable.
The sink.name should remain @DEFAULT_SINK@.
Escape the enclosing @ to prevent substitution of DEFAULT_SINK with an
empty string while generating pipewire.conf.
Move some of the tracking code for the DLL to where it is used.
Add resync.ms (default 10) option at which we give up rate adjusting
and instead do a hard resync. This results in a jump in the position
of the graph clock.
Add extension support to modules. This is a list of extension commands
that can be performed on the module.
Remove the custom registry of extensions and make proper modules that
implement the extensions.
This is more in line with what pulseaudio does. The advantage is that the
modules actually show up in the module list and that we can use the
module user_data to implement the extension later.
It's better for PHC identification in multi-NIC systems. PHC numbering might be dependent on the probe order yet no bugs was observed. Still recommend this for more comfortable configuration.
Also added some guidance on what must be changed
As reported in #3217, PTP driver has to have the highest priority for packets to arrive in time
Everything connected to AES67 should be clocked by the Grandmaster clock
Remove group permission on the system manager socket so that restricted
clients cannot use it to get unrestricted access. It is assumed that the
session manager system service (wireplumber) is running as pipewire user
and will get access to the manager socket, while other clients are
members of the pipewire group and will only get access to the normal
socket.
Modern heterogenous multiprocessor systems rely increasingly on
scheduler hinting for efficiency gains and system optimisation.
This is especially true on embedded systems, where background
tasks such as audio daemons should be consigned to the most
power-efficient core in the system. Left to its own devices, the
Linux Completely Fair Scheduler tends to migrate Pipewire to
more performant cores, even when this is unnecessary.
Luckily, CFS can be told by a task to clamp its utilisation values.
Coupled with energy-aware scheduling, this allows the scheduler to
make better informed decisions about where tasks should be placed,
and what pstate to set for the CPU it is running on.
Enable the user to configure UCLAMP_MIN and UCLAMP_MAX values via
arguments to libpipewire-module-rt.
Signed-off-by: James Calligeros <jcalligeros99@gmail.com>
In JSON, the colon actually is used for assignment, but in spa_type_info
the colon is used as a separator. To properly parse and pass the
properties to the videotestsrc, the key has to be enclosed by quotation
marks to prevent splitting by the JSON parser.
Commit 9b29bcd4e8 ("conf: set description for test nodes") set the
description only for the minimal.conf and pipewire.conf and skipped the
pipewire-vulkan.conf.
Set the description for pipewire-vulkan.conf, too.
Add access.socket option, which sets PW_KEY_ACCESS based only on which
socket the client connected from.
Remove the executable-based permissions and all old options. Add
access.legacy=true option that enables the old default behavior. The
legacy mode cannot be used together with the socket-based access.
Emit warnings if any of the removed old options have been set.
Set pipewire.sec.flatpak=true for Flatpak applications.
The socket-based access ignores PW_KEY_CLIENT_ACCESS and the Flatpak
status when setting PW_KEY_ACCESS. Dealing with them becomes
responsibility of the session manager (or equivalent) which processes
the permission rules.
Make the default access.socket value compatible with the
module-protocol-native default two-socket configuration.
However, if neither access.socket or access.legacy is specified, we will
for now use the legacy mode for backward compatibility.
If no socket configuration specified for a server, create two sockets,
"CORENAME" and "CORENAME-manager" where CORENAME is the value computed
by get_server_name.
