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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	alsa-user <alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:50:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159195859.2899.72.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925143838.GQ13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:38 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well i agree with the suggestion of trying a different PCI slot for
> the sb live.  There is so much onboard stuff sharing interrupts on
> those boards that you might have problems because of that.  Creative
> cards are not very good at dealing with anything other than ideal
> conditions from what I have gathered over the years.  The manual for
> the board will tell you which IRQ goes to which slot, and I guess you
> want to avoid using a slot that shares with the SATA controller. 

It might not be interrupt related, it could be DMA starvation.  This has
been observed with some SATA controllers while testing the -rt patches.
The symptom is that the latency traces show the machine going in "slow
motion".

Dominique: try the -rt kernel, enable latency tracing and post the
output.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25 11:55 Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O Dominique Dumont
2006-09-25 12:17 ` [Alsa-user] " Francesco Peeters
2006-10-05 20:42   ` Dominique Dumont
2006-10-05 20:45     ` Lee Revell
2006-10-05 21:01       ` Dominique Dumont
2006-10-05 21:12         ` Lee Revell
2006-10-05 21:50           ` Alan Cox
2006-10-08 10:38             ` PCM distorsion snapshots from SATA/ALSA conflict (was: [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O) Dominique Dumont
2006-10-08 16:41               ` Lee Revell
2006-10-14 15:04                 ` [Alsa-user] PCM distorsion snapshots from SATA/ALSA conflict Dominique Dumont
2006-10-05 21:18         ` [Alsa-user] Pb with simultaneous SATA and ALSA I/O Lee Revell
2006-10-07 12:03           ` Dominique Dumont
2006-10-07 17:08             ` Lee Revell
2006-10-05 21:52       ` Alan Cox
2006-10-05 21:45         ` Lee Revell
2006-09-25 14:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-25 14:50   ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-09-26 14:29     ` Thierry Vignaud
2006-09-26 14:37     ` Dominique Dumont
2006-09-26 14:44       ` Lee Revell
2006-10-04 10:45     ` [Alsa-user] " Dominique Dumont

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