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      1 /*
      2  * Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
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      4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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     16 
     17 #ifndef ANDROID_FRAMETRACKER_H
     18 #define ANDROID_FRAMETRACKER_H
     19 
     20 #include <stddef.h>
     21 
     22 #include <utils/Mutex.h>
     23 #include <utils/Timers.h>
     24 #include <utils/RefBase.h>
     25 
     26 namespace android {
     27 
     28 class String8;
     29 class Fence;
     30 
     31 // FrameTracker tracks information about the most recently rendered frames. It
     32 // uses a circular buffer of frame records, and is *NOT* thread-safe -
     33 // mutexing must be done at a higher level if multi-threaded access is
     34 // possible.
     35 //
     36 // Some of the time values tracked may be set either as a specific timestamp
     37 // or a fence.  When a non-NULL fence is set for a given time value, the
     38 // signal time of that fence is used instead of the timestamp.
     39 class FrameTracker {
     40 
     41 public:
     42     // NUM_FRAME_RECORDS is the size of the circular buffer used to track the
     43     // frame time history.
     44     enum { NUM_FRAME_RECORDS = 128 };
     45 
     46     enum { NUM_FRAME_BUCKETS = 7 };
     47 
     48     FrameTracker();
     49 
     50     // setDesiredPresentTime sets the time at which the current frame
     51     // should be presented to the user under ideal (i.e. zero latency)
     52     // conditions.
     53     void setDesiredPresentTime(nsecs_t desiredPresentTime);
     54 
     55     // setFrameReadyTime sets the time at which the current frame became ready
     56     // to be presented to the user.  For example, if the frame contents is
     57     // being written to memory by some asynchronous hardware, this would be
     58     // the time at which those writes completed.
     59     void setFrameReadyTime(nsecs_t readyTime);
     60 
     61     // setFrameReadyFence sets the fence that is used to get the time at which
     62     // the current frame became ready to be presented to the user.
     63     void setFrameReadyFence(const sp<Fence>& readyFence);
     64 
     65     // setActualPresentTime sets the timestamp at which the current frame became
     66     // visible to the user.
     67     void setActualPresentTime(nsecs_t displayTime);
     68 
     69     // setActualPresentFence sets the fence that is used to get the time
     70     // at which the current frame became visible to the user.
     71     void setActualPresentFence(const sp<Fence>& fence);
     72 
     73     // setDisplayRefreshPeriod sets the display refresh period in nanoseconds.
     74     // This is used to compute frame presentation duration statistics relative
     75     // to this period.
     76     void setDisplayRefreshPeriod(nsecs_t displayPeriod);
     77 
     78     // advanceFrame advances the frame tracker to the next frame.
     79     void advanceFrame();
     80 
     81     // clear resets all the tracked frame data to zero.
     82     void clear();
     83 
     84     // logAndResetStats dumps the current statistics to the binary event log
     85     // and then resets the accumulated statistics to their initial values.
     86     void logAndResetStats(const String8& name);
     87 
     88     // dump appends the current frame display time history to the result string.
     89     void dump(String8& result) const;
     90 
     91 private:
     92     struct FrameRecord {
     93         FrameRecord() :
     94             desiredPresentTime(0),
     95             frameReadyTime(0),
     96             actualPresentTime(0) {}
     97         nsecs_t desiredPresentTime;
     98         nsecs_t frameReadyTime;
     99         nsecs_t actualPresentTime;
    100         sp<Fence> frameReadyFence;
    101         sp<Fence> actualPresentFence;
    102     };
    103 
    104     // processFences iterates over all the frame records that have a fence set
    105     // and replaces that fence with a timestamp if the fence has signaled.  If
    106     // the fence is not signaled the record's displayTime is set to INT64_MAX.
    107     //
    108     // This method is const because although it modifies the frame records it
    109     // does so in such a way that the information represented should not
    110     // change.  This allows it to be called from the dump method.
    111     void processFencesLocked() const;
    112 
    113     // updateStatsLocked updates the running statistics that are gathered
    114     // about the frame times.
    115     void updateStatsLocked(size_t newFrameIdx) const;
    116 
    117     // resetFrameCounteresLocked sets all elements of the mNumFrames array to
    118     // 0.
    119     void resetFrameCountersLocked();
    120 
    121     // logStatsLocked dumps the current statistics to the binary event log.
    122     void logStatsLocked(const String8& name) const;
    123 
    124     // isFrameValidLocked returns true if the data for the given frame index is
    125     // valid and has all arrived (i.e. there are no oustanding fences).
    126     bool isFrameValidLocked(size_t idx) const;
    127 
    128     // mFrameRecords is the circular buffer storing the tracked data for each
    129     // frame.
    130     FrameRecord mFrameRecords[NUM_FRAME_RECORDS];
    131 
    132     // mOffset is the offset into mFrameRecords of the current frame.
    133     size_t mOffset;
    134 
    135     // mNumFences is the total number of fences set in the frame records.  It
    136     // is incremented each time a fence is added and decremented each time a
    137     // signaled fence is removed in processFences or if advanceFrame clobbers
    138     // a fence.
    139     //
    140     // The number of fences is tracked so that the run time of processFences
    141     // doesn't grow with NUM_FRAME_RECORDS.
    142     int mNumFences;
    143 
    144     // mNumFrames keeps a count of the number of frames with a duration in a
    145     // particular range of vsync periods.  Element n of the array stores the
    146     // number of frames with duration in the half-inclusive range
    147     // [2^n, 2^(n+1)).  The last element of the array contains the count for
    148     // all frames with duration greater than 2^(NUM_FRAME_BUCKETS-1).
    149     int32_t mNumFrames[NUM_FRAME_BUCKETS];
    150 
    151     // mDisplayPeriod is the display refresh period of the display for which
    152     // this FrameTracker is gathering information.
    153     nsecs_t mDisplayPeriod;
    154 
    155     // mMutex is used to protect access to all member variables.
    156     mutable Mutex mMutex;
    157 };
    158 
    159 }
    160 
    161 #endif // ANDROID_FRAMETRACKER_H
    162