Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751307AbWBZJ5o (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:57:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbWBZJ5n (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:57:43 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40931 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307AbWBZJ5n (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:57:43 -0500 Subject: Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie In-Reply-To: <20060226014437.327b1cc3.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1140917787.24141.78.camel@mindpipe> <20060226014437.327b1cc3.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:57:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1140947860.2934.12.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 24 On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 01:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > Users report that this patch: > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html > > > > is still needed to eliminate audio underruns for Radeon users. > > That's a 2.6.4 patch which generates 100% rejects. > > But still, if that patch helped and didn't throw a billion might_sleep() > and people were using preemptible kernels then we have a lock_kernel() > problem. lock_kernel() is a semaphore nowadays.... unless those people just turned that off, at which point.. their problem ;) - 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/