Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed?

Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-26T09:57:44Z

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> 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.
>
> That's a 2.6.4 patch which generates 100% rejects.
>
> But still, if that patch helped and didn't throw a billion might_sleep()
> and people were using preemptible kernels then we have a lock_kernel()
> problem.

lock_kernel() is a semaphore nowadays.... unless those people just
turned that off, at which point.. their problem ;)