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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rt1: timing problems (was [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes)
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On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 05:46 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 17:59 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>
> > Hi Ingo... back to testing.
> > History:
> >
> > 2.6.23.x + rt has not been very usable for audio applications.
> > 2.6.24-rt1: same so far.
> >
> > Why: Jack keeps printing "delayed..." messages and has xruns which means
> > that somehow the timing is delayed more than what jack would think
> > reasonable. As in the case with an old timing bug, the problem
> > dissapears when booting the kernel with idle=poll. Other users of Planet
> > CCRMA are able to replicate the behavior, which goes away with idle=poll
> > or booting the machine with only one core. As a workaround I have been
> > packaging 2.6.22.x but now I'm not able to use that as the old rt14
> > patch, suitably tweaked results in a non working kernel.
> >
> > So it looks like, again, timing is getting skewed when the jack process
> > jumps between cpus and thus jack sees timing jumps that are just not
> > happenning.
> >
> > This is with a build based on 2.6.24 using as a base the latest Fedora
> > rawhide source package plus 2.6.24-rt1.
>
> Do you have a simple testcase? (one which doesn't entail installing
> ccrma and becoming an audiophile)

No, I don't at this point.
I'll see if I can cook something simple today... (naively thinking that
some short C code could test for the clock being actually monotonic
across cpus).

-- Fernando




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