Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752644AbaG1PJT (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:09:19 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f177.google.com ([209.85.220.177]:55439 "EHLO mail-vc0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbaG1PJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:09:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140728095442.GA4875@fancy-poultry.org> References: <20140727083758.GA4834@fancy-poultry.org> <20140728095442.GA4875@fancy-poultry.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:09:16 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bug on Kernel 3.16 r6: Sound and Buffering in Clementine with Files are Transferring to Music Directory From: Nick Krause To: Heinz Diehl Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > First: my email you are quoting here was sent to you directly, off-list, > because it only contains common stuff and has nothing to do with > kernel development. In other words to avoid annoying lkml people. > In addition, I placed an "Reply-to" header pointing back to me. > Despite, you *manually* redirected your answer to my private mail > back to the list, thus annoying people and breaking the informational > flow of this thread. > > > On 27.07.2014, Nick Krause wrote: > >> I am transferring into the same directory for the music >> I am listening to. > > So you produce a lot of disk I/O by writing/reading from the same disk > at the same time, and as you encounter stalls, you take this for a > kernel bug (which clearly is not). These stalls are most probably > caused by fsync() flushing your data/buffers, which is blocking. > > So moving the music data you are listening to to another disk would > make things a lot easier. > >> In addition , my cpu usage when doing this is half of my older > > DMA transfer is mostly done be the controller itself, and not the CPU. > > Btw, EOT for me. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ Then explain to me why this is only happening on recent rc kernels and not the Ubuntu distro kernels I was using before. Seems weird that only recent rc kernels are triggering this. Regards Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/