From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] sb live dma buffer alloc failure? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:56:39 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3E40BA0F.9070600@ece.cornell.edu> <3E4AD20D.3070703@ece.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3E4AD20D.3070703@ece.cornell.edu> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Brian J. Tarricone" Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:00:29 -0500, Brian J. Tarricone 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf