Supply widgets do not count towards the input and output widgets of their
neighbors and for supply widgets themselves we do not care for the number
of input or output paths. This means that a path that connects to a supply
widget effectively behaves the same as a path that as the weak property set.
This patch adds a new path flag that gets set to true when the path is
connected to at least one supply widget. If a path with the flag set is
encountered in is_connected_{input,output}_ep() is is skipped in the same
way that weak paths are skipped. This slightly brings down the number of
path checks.
Since both the weak and the supply flag are implemented as bitfields which
are stored in the same word there is no runtime overhead due to checking
both rather than just one and also the size of the path struct is not
increased by this patch. Another advantage is that we do not have to handle
supply widgets in is_connected_{input,output}_ep() anymore since it will
never be called for supply widgets. The only exception is from
dapm_widget_power_read_file() where a check is added to special case supply
widgets.
Testing with the ADAU1761, which has a handful of supply widgets, shows the
following changes in the DAPM stats for a playback stream start.
Power Path Neighbour
Before: 34 78 117
After: 34 48 117
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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