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From: Alan Young <consult.awy@gmail.com>
To: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: Improving status timestamp accuracy
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 07:44:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57566D64.1050400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51c7887a-db2f-ee88-8290-2f2d21d6435d@linux.intel.com>

On 06/06/16 15:53, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> I probably need more coffee but how is this patch helping track audio 
> v. wallclock drift? The additional precision is based on wallclock 
> deltas... 


Of course, it wouldn't, due to being buggy. I think I needed more coffee 
too.

But the basic point is that if the difference between tstamp and 
(trigger_tstamp + audio_tstamp) varies over time, this will be the drift 
between the audio output and wallclock time.

Depending upon the specific goal, a calculation based on tstamp + delay 
may be appropriate.

This is true today with a granularity of about period time. The idea 
behind my change is to make the granularity much smaller, preferably < ~1ms.

I'll work on developing and testing a patch for consideration before 
coming back to the last. It will be easier to discuss the merits or 
otherwise of my proposal with a concrete, working patch to consider.

Alan.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-04  9:31 Improving status timestamp accuracy Alan Young
2016-06-04 10:17 ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-06-04 10:43   ` Alan Young
2016-06-04 15:59     ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-06-04 16:20       ` Alan Young
2016-06-05 16:27         ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-06-05 16:32           ` Alan Young
2016-06-05  1:14 ` Raymond Yau
2016-06-05 10:33   ` Alan Young
2016-06-06  1:24     ` Raymond Yau
2016-06-06  9:40       ` Alan Young
2016-06-06  8:34     ` Takashi Iwai
2016-06-06  9:42       ` Alan Young
2016-06-06 14:53         ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2016-06-07  6:44           ` Alan Young [this message]
2016-06-07 18:01             ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2016-07-08 15:03             ` Alan Young
2016-07-15 20:13               ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2016-07-19 15:33                 ` Alan Young
2016-07-19 15:58                   ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2016-07-20  6:59                     ` Alan Young
2016-08-01 21:56                       ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2016-08-02  7:30                         ` Alan Young
2016-08-02  7:55                           ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-08-02 16:25                           ` Pierre-Louis Bossart

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