[LAU] Too many xruns

[Joakim Hernberg]

On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:30:35 +0200
Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:

> On 09/07/12 10:17, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
> > Another tip, if you have to use a slot that shares IRQs, then you
> > have to raise the priority of all the soft interrupt threads that
> > share the IRQ with the soundcard, otherwise you will get a lot of
> > xruns.
> 
> Afaik this is not necessary. The other softirqs get the default
> priority of 50 so they already get raised.

All soft interrupts run at 50 by default, so they are all "raised" by
default.. Empirical testing on a couple of machines shows that it is
indeed beneficial to raise the priority of associated soft
interrupt threads.

There is so much hearsay and mumbo jumbo about linux audio floating
around, that I would not make such a statement without having a
foundation for it..  Of course seeing the wide variety of hardware and
the fact that we all seem to run from up to date to years old software,
makes any statement very much a your milage may vary...

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   Joakim