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From: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
To: lgirdwood@gmail.com, broonie@kernel.org
Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com,
	yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com, pierre-louis.bossart@linux.dev,
	yuhsuan@google.com
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: Use high-priority workqueue for PCM period elapsed
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:04:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730130445.8277-1-peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com> (raw)

From: Yu-Hsuan Hsu <yuhsuan@google.com>

The snd_sof_pcm_period_elapsed function currently schedules work on the
system-wide workqueue. This can lead to potential delays or jitter in
audio processing if the system workqueue is busy with other tasks.

To improve real-time performance and ensure timely processing of PCM
periods, we can use the system_highpri_wq instead of the default work
queue.

In performance testing, this change significantly reduced the observed
scheduling delays. For instance, under load(stressapptest -M 15000 -m
60), the maximum delay dropped from 9ms on the system workqueue to 5ms
on the dedicated high-priority workqueue.

Suggested-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-Hsuan Hsu <yuhsuan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Péter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com>
---
 sound/soc/sof/pcm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/pcm.c b/sound/soc/sof/pcm.c
index b2071edeaea6..f748d072109a 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sof/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sof/pcm.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void snd_sof_pcm_period_elapsed(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	 * To avoid sending IPC before the previous IPC is handled, we
 	 * schedule delayed work here to call the snd_pcm_period_elapsed().
 	 */
-	schedule_work(&spcm->stream[substream->stream].period_elapsed_work);
+	queue_work(system_highpri_wq, &spcm->stream[substream->stream].period_elapsed_work);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(snd_sof_pcm_period_elapsed);
 
-- 
2.55.0


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