Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:57:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@rndsoft.co.kr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound skipping problems Message-ID: <20050608095726.F16943@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20050608061532.GA5805@rndsoft.co.kr> References: <20050607210453.S16943@mail.chesapeake.net> <20050608061532.GA5805@rndsoft.co.kr>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:32:12PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping problems > > people have under heavy io load. Several people sent me traces that > > showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of milliseconds with Giant > > held, which can hold up the pcm code. The patch is available at: > > > > http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff > > > > This changes flushbufqueues to flush multiple buffers instead of one > > buffer at a time. It also places buffers we failed to flush at the end of > > the list, and uses a sentinal to track our progress through the list. > > This almost entirely solved the skipping problem for me. Depending on > > user feedback we can do a little more to reduce the time spent processing > > here. > > > > Unfortunatly, it seems that it doesn't show much difference. > HW: Gateway Solo 5300(UP, P3 700MHz, maestro3 driver) > > As soon as I started to extract mozilla source the sound playing > stopped and the system seems to be freezed. > (No response from keyboard input except showing ^C.) > It seems that there is no difference with/without witness. I added an extra yield to the buf daemon. Try the new patch and see if it makes a difference. > -- > Regards, > Pyun YongHyeon > http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari | yongari@freebsd.org >
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