From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753727Ab2IFHSB (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 03:18:01 -0400 Received: from ud10.udmedia.de ([194.117.254.50]:55957 "EHLO mail.ud10.udmedia.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751830Ab2IFHR7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2012 03:17:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:17:57 +0200 From: Markus Trippelsdorf To: Daniel Mack Cc: Takashi Iwai , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Pierre-Louis Bossart Subject: Re: snd-usb: "delay: estimated 0, actual 352" Message-ID: <20120906071757.GB257@x4> References: <20120906060220.GA252@x4> <504843BA.2040808@gmail.com> <20120906065340.GA257@x4> <50484BEB.4020103@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <50484BEB.4020103@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2012.09.06 at 09:08 +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: > On 06.09.2012 08:53, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2012.09.06 at 08:48 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >> At Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:33:30 +0200, > >> Daniel Mack wrote: > >>> > >>> On 06.09.2012 08:02, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >>>> On 2012.09.04 at 16:40 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> Sound fixes for 3.6-rc5 > >>>>> > >>>>> There are nothing scaring, contains only small fixes for HD-audio and > >>>>> USB-audio: > >>>>> - EPSS regression fix and GPIO fix for HD-audio IDT codecs > >>>>> - A series of USB-audio regression fixes that are found since 3.5 kernel > >>>>> > >>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>> Daniel Mack (4): > >>>>> ALSA: snd-usb: Fix URB cancellation at stream start > >>>>> ALSA: snd-usb: restore delay information > >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >>>> The commit fbcfbf5f above causes the following lines to be printed > >>>> whenever I start a new song: > >>> > >>> Copied Pierre-Louis Bossart - he wrote the code in 294c4fb8 which this > >>> patch (fbcfbf5f) brings back now. > >>> > >>>> delay: estimated 0, actual 352 > >>>> delay: estimated 353, actual 705 > >>>> > >>>> (44.1 * 8 = 352.8) > >>>> > >>>> This happens with an USB-DAC that identifies itself as "C-Media USB > >>>> Headphone Set". > >>> > >>> And you didn't you see these lines with 3.4? > >> > >> Maybe the difference of start condition? > >> > >> Markus, does the patch below fix anything? > > > > Unfortunately no. > > However reverting the following fixes the problem: > > > > commit 245baf983cc39524cce39c24d01b276e6e653c9e > > Author: Daniel Mack > > Date: Thu Aug 30 18:52:30 2012 +0200 > > > > ALSA: snd-usb: fix calls to next_packet_size > > > > No, this one certainly fixes a problem and does the right thing by > restoring the original code. > > If you wouldn't state that you didn't see the same effect with 3.4(!), > before the refactoring done in 3.5, I would believe the device is simply > slightly off in its feedback rate and the tighter delay code complains > about it while compensating, just as it did before. > > Are there any more than these two lines? And is audio working at all? Is > it distorted in any way? There are only these two lines (printed whenever sound starts). Audio is working just fine with no distortions. I did see similar lines before when the system load was very high (happend during "make check" when building glibc). Here is what Pierre-Louis wrote in November 2011: »This was supposed to be an informational message, I thought it was only enabled for debug. Regular users don't really need to know.« -- Markus