From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABE49FF.8DD46595@denise.shiny.it> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:41:51 +0200 From: Giuliano Pochini MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Sandoe Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Sound skips References: <20010324194439.431FB2EFE9@apollo.valhalla.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Iain Sandoe wrote: > > > When I play music under high load the sound has a lot of > > short interruptions. It seems not to be related with I/O. I tried > > Alsaplayer > > this is with Takashi Iwai's driver (it's the only one AFAIK) > [...] > > which OSS driver are you using? > dmasound? Yes. > with or without my patches ? Plain 2.4.2. I'm d/l-ing your patches now. I'll let you know. > > I don't know what causes that (ints kept disabled too much time ?) > > but if someone has a patch to try I'me here. > > there are a variety of things that can block for between 16 & 300 ms (not > necessarily IRQs). > > what size fragments are you using? 2K. I have to rise it to 8KB to work fine. My friend with the G4 still have very few interruptions even with 8KB. Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/