[LAU] Lexicon Lambda USB - are my lockups due to the hardware or software?

[Antony Gelberg]

If you follow back to the start of the thread, I shared some error messages
and a link where someone pointed out that the device doesn't follow the USB
spec. Not sure of the relevance.

When the sound quits, the computer is generally responsive.

Here's some output about the interrupts. The interface is on Bus 03 / Port
3 / Dev 8 hence xhci_hcd.

antony at cubase:~$ lsusb -t && grep -E "(CPU|xhci)" /proc/interrupts
/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 5000M
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/14p, 480M
    |__ Port 2: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 480M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 0, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 12M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 1, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 12M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 2, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 12M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 4, Class=Application Specific Interface, Driver=,
12M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 6, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 12M
    |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 7, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 12M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 2, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 3, Class=Audio, Driver=snd-usb-audio, 480M
    |__ Port 7: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid,
1.5M
    |__ Port 8: Dev 6, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid,
1.5M
    |__ Port 8: Dev 6, If 1, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid,
1.5M
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/8p, 480M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci-pci/2p, 480M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/6p, 480M
           CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
 29:       1488 1092584730          0          0  IR-PCI-MSI 327680-edge
   xhci_hcd

Nothing else is using that USB port.

Whilst reading around the points you raised, I found irqbalance. I see it
is installed by default and running (not sure if that's a good thing, it
sounds like a good idea to balance interrupts across all cores).

I also found this rather old thread when trying to find out how to get
information about USB port priority:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2184466. Shame he didn't post
here, he might have gotten a response.

I don't have a Mac or Windows machine to test with.

On 14 April 2017 at 23:02, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017, Antony Gelberg wrote:
>
> Sorry, I can't quote easily (using Gmail on the web)...
>> About underruns, I'm using 128 frames / period and 2 periods / buffer.
>> Now I'm
>> trying to reproduce the issue without jackd, I guess that might be less
>> relevant.
>> The "operations" I was talking about can hardly be called massive, and the
>> lockups last for much longer than the operations themselves.
>>
>> it's a pretty decent i5, nothing earth-shattering, but then I'm not
>> asking much
>> of it. The lockups happen even without Ardour, just listening to music
>> with
>> Audacious / VLC / Chrome (YouTube) / listening to old demos on Audacity.
>>
>
> Shouldn't happen. I would think.
>
> Not sure if this has been asked before. WHere is the priority of the USB
> port in use? (as compared to other USB ports for example) The question is:
> What is going causing the delay? Sound device going to sleep? (or
> reconnecting maybe? - does dmesg show it connecting more than once?) or the
> computer having some other process taking over for too long. I assume that
> there is no mouse/keyboard/etc. using the same USB port. Does the computer
> itself seem unresponsive when the sound quits?
>
> Is it possible to test this device with a MAC or windows machine?
>
>
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>
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