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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:17:43 -0700
From:      Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>
To:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Choppy sound with nForce4 chipset during network activity
Message-ID:  <20070712161743.GA51621@lizzy.catnook.local>

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Hi. I am noticing choppy sound playback during network activity.  Could this
be related to the IRQ sharing between pcm0 and nfe0?

lizzy:~% uname -a
FreeBSD lizzy.catnook.local 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #6: Sun Jul  8
14:41:29 PDT 2007     root@lizzy.catnook.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIZZY
i386
lizzy:~% cat /dev/sndstat 
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <nVidia nForce4> at io 0xdc00, 0xe000 irq 23 bufsz 32768 kld snd_ich
[MPSAFE] (1p:3v/1r:1v channels duplex default)
lizzy:~% vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq1: atkbd0                        9201          0
irq4: uart0                          129          0
irq6: fdc0                             1          0
irq12: psm0                       394582          3
irq22: atapci2                   2064956         16
irq23: pcm0 nfe0                 3970028         32
cpu0: timer                    244997857       1999
Total                          251436754       2052
lizzy:~% 

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com



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