From: "Zengtao (B)" <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "perex@perex.cz" <perex@perex.cz>,
"tiwai@suse.com" <tiwai@suse.com>,
"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [alsa-devel] Timeout issues in wait_for_avail function
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 07:43:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <678F3D1BB717D949B966B68EAEB446ED0C91AA6C@DGGEMM506-MBS.china.huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h1sef96ua.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Hi Takashi:
Thank you for your reply.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai@suse.de]
>Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:40 PM
>To: Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
>Cc: perex@perex.cz; tiwai@suse.com; alsa-devel@alsa-project.org;
>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Timeout issues in wait_for_avail function
>
>On Mon, 07 May 2018 12:49:34 +0200,
>Zengtao (B) wrote:
>>
>> Hi perex and tiwai:
>>
>> I have met a timeout case when capture audio from snd-usb-audio
>> device, when the host call the pcm_read and get into the wait_for_avail
>function.
>> The following happends
>> 1. No available data for capture(maybe because of the late response
>> audio data by the uac device)
>
>Hrm, in the case of capture, the data must be available.
>If it's not the case, something is wrong.
>
>> 2. The current thread falls into sleep state and no one wakes up it.
>> 3. The current thread will sleep 10s(schedule_timeout(1000)) and then
>wakeup.
>>
>> I have two question about the wait_for_avail:
>> 1. The timeout value too long, is it a reasonable value?
>> 2. Is there any mechanism to wake up the thread if there is data from the
>hw.
>
>The scenario above shouldn't happen, so no need for discussion.
>Rather we should check why it's woken up even though no data is available.
>
It really happens on my platform, and anyway 10 seconds timeout seems
not a reasonable value. And I don't there is any guarantee that there must be avail
data when we reach wait_for_avail, in fact, inside the wait_for_avail, there is branch
when no data is available.
>You can check the tracepoints to see the action of PCM stream, and confirm
>whether it's really no data, or it's just lost by some reason (or looks as if so).
>
I trace the data flow, we reach the wait_for_avail function before the usb snd data arrives,
so we wait until 10 seconds timeout.
>
>Takashi
Regards
Zengtao
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 10:49 Timeout issues in wait_for_avail function Zengtao (B)
2018-05-13 10:40 ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2018-05-31 7:43 ` Zengtao (B) [this message]
2018-05-31 8:06 ` Takashi Iwai
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