Re: 2.6.24-rt1: timing problems (was [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes)

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 17:59 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> Hi Ingo... back to testing. 
> History:
> 
> 2.6.23.x + rt has not been very usable for audio applications. 
> 2.6.24-rt1: same so far. 
> 
> Why: Jack keeps printing "delayed..." messages and has xruns which means
> that somehow the timing is delayed more than what jack would think
> reasonable. As in the case with an old timing bug, the problem
> dissapears when booting the kernel with idle=poll. Other users of Planet
> CCRMA are able to replicate the behavior, which goes away with idle=poll
> or booting the machine with only one core. As a workaround I have been
> packaging 2.6.22.x but now I'm not able to use that as the old rt14
> patch, suitably tweaked results in a non working kernel. 
> 
> So it looks like, again, timing is getting skewed when the jack process
> jumps between cpus and thus jack sees timing jumps that are just not
> happenning. 
> 
> This is with a build based on 2.6.24 using as a base the latest Fedora
> rawhide source package plus 2.6.24-rt1. 

Do you have a simple testcase?  (one which doesn't entail installing
ccrma and becoming an audiophile)

	-Mike