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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Cc: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: tlv320dac33: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:17:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831211745.GC12660@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88b9a137-b934-f928-535f-719cfbc9bff3@ti.com>

Hello, Peter.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:10:47PM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > What kind of time frame are we talking about?  If it really needs high
> > priority, the right thing to do would be using a WQ_HIGHPRI workqueue.
> 
> In order to be tune the performance and power saving during audio playback
> lower is better, but consistency matters more to be able have stable system.
> I have some latency compensation in the code so it could tolerate some drift,
> but big spikes can cause the codec to go underflow and we can not recover from
> that w/o hard reset of the codec.

Gees, that's a brutal failure mode.

> I do believe that Linux got much better over the years since I wrote the dac33
> driver, so I'm fine with the move to system_wq. The most problematic mode (I
> think it was MODE7LP or smthing) is not upstream so this change should not
> break audio on the n9/n950.

Thanks for the explanation!

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-30 18:27 [PATCH] ASoC: tlv320dac33: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-08-31 11:56 ` [alsa-devel] " Peter Ujfalusi
2016-08-31 14:44   ` Tejun Heo
2016-08-31 19:10     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2016-08-31 21:17       ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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