From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751261AbWBZTfU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:35:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751314AbWBZTfU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:35:20 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:4494 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751261AbWBZTfS (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:35:18 -0500 Subject: Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed? From: Lee Revell To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1140945232.2934.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1140917787.24141.78.camel@mindpipe> <1140945232.2934.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:35:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1140982513.24141.118.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.91 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 10:13 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 20:36 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > Users report that this patch: > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html > > > > is still needed to eliminate audio underruns for Radeon users. > > > > Any news on this? > > well that patch is not working (it's already in the mail, it schedules > with spinlocks ;) > Understood, your response indicated that you would investigate a proper solution. > the other angle is that you're trading 3D performance vs audio > performance.... > AFAICT it's more like trading 3D performance for having audio work at all. Other video drivers that were too aggressive and caused audio dropouts (VIA) were fixed, even though there was a slight performance cost. Lee