Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc2+ regression -- audio skipping
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 17:30:46 -0400
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On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:24 +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> Hi list.
> 
> 2.6.17-rc2 (and 3 and 4) make my audio skip. Audio player is ogg123 
> running in an xterm. Browsing heavy sites (say, eBay) with Firefox 
> 1.5.0.3 gets me audio underruns quickly. This does not happen on 
> 2.6.17-rc1 and earlier (I just tested extensively; quite impossible to 
> generate underruns on -rc1, quickly on -rc2 and later).
> 
> It's not ALSA; reverted */sound/* from the rc1-rc2 interdiff. It's also 
> not cfq-iosched.c. Any likely culprits in there? (I'm not a GIT user).
> 

I would suspect the scheduler interactivity patches.  Please confirm
this by running ogg123 at nice -20 - do the underruns persist?

Lee

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