Re: [Alsa-user] sb live dma buffer alloc failure?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:00:29 -0500,
Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23@ece.cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> just a quick update - i installed yesterday's cvs of alsa-driver, and i 
> haven't had any problems (no alloc failures or apps locking up) since 
> then.  i've tried to stress test it a bit (filling up ram, opening and 
> closing the pcm device rapidly), and i'm pleased to say no problems.  i 
> looked at the cvs logs, quite a bit has been done in sg_buf.c since rc7, 
> perhaps something there had an impact?
>  
> even if this is just a side-effect of other work, thanks for the fix, 
> guys ^_^

thanks for your report.

in the cvs version, sg-buffer handler pre-allocates the buffer and
keep it as other buffer types, so that  the buffer re-allocation
wouldn't happen rarely.   so, it's not a side effect :)


ciao,

Takashi


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