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[1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Increase the default prealloc buffer for HDA audio devices (non-modem)

Message ID 1260405905-22731-2-git-send-email-brad.figg@canonical.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: Andy Whitcroft
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Commit Message

Brad Figg Dec. 10, 2009, 12:45 a.m. UTC 
This allows for buffering of up to 4 seconds of audio. This is
intended to improve the audio experience. This patch is being
carried by Fedora but is not upstream.

Signed-off-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Daniel Chen Dec. 10, 2009, 12:54 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com> wrote:
> This allows for buffering of up to 4 seconds of audio. This is
> intended to improve the audio experience. This patch is being
> carried by Fedora but is not upstream.

FWIW, it has been carried in Fedora since 11 but appears to have been
backported to 10 as well. No one has complained about eaten kittens,
yet.

I've been testing since Jaunty via /etc/rc.local, and the hand-wavy
"it seems to smooth audio a bit on my NVidia controller" applies.

-Dan
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diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index 6517f58..3f02c70 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -1944,6 +1944,7 @@  azx_attach_pcm_stream(struct hda_bus *bus, struct hda_codec *codec,
 	struct azx_pcm *apcm;
 	int pcm_dev = cpcm->device;
 	int s, err;
+	size_t prealloc_min = 64*1024;	/* 64KB */
 
 	if (pcm_dev >= AZX_MAX_PCMS) {
 		snd_printk(KERN_ERR SFX "Invalid PCM device number %d\n",
@@ -1977,10 +1978,21 @@  azx_attach_pcm_stream(struct hda_bus *bus, struct hda_codec *codec,
 		if (cpcm->stream[s].substreams)
 			snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, s, &azx_pcm_ops);
 	}
+
 	/* buffer pre-allocation */
+
+	/* subtle, don't allocate a big buffer for modems...
+	 * also, don't just test 32BIT_MASK, since azx supports
+	 * 64-bit DMA in some cases.
+	 */
+	/* lennart wants a 2.2MB buffer for 2sec of 48khz */
+	if (pcm->dev_class == SNDRV_PCM_CLASS_GENERIC &&
+	    chip->pci->dma_mask >= DMA_32BIT_MASK)
+		prealloc_min = 4 * 1024 * 1024;	/* 4MB */
+
 	snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all(pcm, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG,
 					      snd_dma_pci_data(chip->pci),
-					      1024 * 64, 32 * 1024 * 1024);
+					      prealloc_min, 32 * 1024 * 1024);
 	return 0;
 }