Re: [PATCH 2/2] kselftest/alsa: pcm-test: Decrease stream duration from 4 to 2 seconds

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:03:24 +0200,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > For KernelCI we've got coverage on both.  I can also run stuff on the
> > > boards I have in my lab on demand of course, but there's more coverage
> > > in KernelCI.
> 
> > OK, now I applied those two patches to for-next branch (i.e. for 6.6
> > kernel).  Let's watch out.
> 
> I'm seeing failures on my i.MX6 boards, both the Q and DL have started
> failing in the same way:
> 
> # default.time3.0.0.0.PLAYBACK - 44.1kHz stereo large periods
> # default.time3.0.0.0.PLAYBACK hw_params.RW_INTERLEAVED.S16_LE.44100.2.16383.131064 sw_params.131064
> not ok 10 default.time3.0.0.0.PLAYBACK
> # time mismatch: expected 2000ms got 2229
> 
> reliably (the actual time drifts by a few ms).  The other boards I've
> got coverage of seem fine, and I didn't check any broader CI yet.

Interesting.  With the current patch, we rather extended the margin in
proportion; formerly 4 sec +/- 0.1s, now 2 sec +/- 0.1s.  And it
exceeded out of sudden.

I guess this rather caught a problem of the driver itself.


thanks,

Takashi