Re: i810_audio

[Nathan Bryant <nbryant@allegientsystems.com>]

Nathan Bryant wrote:

> 1) Is the LVI interrupt supposed to arrive when the chip *starts* 
> playing the last buffer?
> 2) Does SiS actually do it this way?
>
> If your theory on why the registers are spinning is correct, and if we 
> receive the LVI interrupt with too much latency, your code will still 
> deadlock, Doug. (The LVI interrupt handler calls update_ptr first 
> thing, which calls get_dma_address.) Furthermore, if this turns out to 
> be the case, the LVI IRQ handler uses dmabuf->count to determine 
> whether to call stop_dac, and needs to call update_ptr to update 
> dmabuf->count... so an explicit stop_dac might be needed elsewhere.
>
> Even if the LVI interrupt comes at the beginning of the buffer, those 
> 2048 bytes will play in 10.67 ms. Can we really guarantee that kind of 
> latency?


Add to this, if SiS isn't sending DCH, and LVI arrives at the beginning 
of the last buffer, count is still > 0, so we don't call stop_dac. And 
we're right back where we started.