10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
1:56 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 15:05, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 16:17, Lee Revell wrote:
Still the same result on rc3, voluntary O4...
Will test soon on rc3/O5.
Anything else I can do to better debug these latency spikes?
(they also probably happen in the mga and r128 drivers)
-- Fernando
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 18:50, John Check wrote:
Here's one case. 2.6.8rc2-mm2 + voluntary O3, On Saturday 07 August 2004 06:30 pm, Lee Revell
wrote:
Yes, of course this is not a long term solution. The point is to get
the buggy video drivers fixed (this is open source after all), in order
to do that we need to be able to say 'when i enable DRI with $FOO
driver, I get xruns, and these go away when I disable it'. I recommend disabling all hardware video
acceleration when tuning a
system for low latency (set Option "NoAccel" and commend out the
"dri"
line). This will prevent X from interacting directly with your hardware
- it is complicated enough when only the kernel can access hardware.
Then, once you get that working, re-enable 2D acceleration, then DRI/3D
acceleration, if these do not cause problems. This will make it much
easier to get the problematic video drivers fixed.
Definitely a good strategy, but nobody is going to take a system with no
video acceleration seriously. lsm module, kernel config
files derived from current default FC2's, very recent alsa CVS (post
1.0.6rc2), FC2, xorg, gnome desktop, P4 laptop 1.7GHz/512M with Radeon
video chipset and Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller,
kernel_preempt=1, voluntary_preempt=3, acpi=on (sound does not work with
acpi=off), irq's left in default state[*]
With "Option NoAccel" and an idle jack in an xterm (-p128 -n2), start
glxgears, move the window around and there are no xruns (any size
window).
With acceleration enabled, start glxgears and with the default size move
the window around, no xruns. Enlarging the window (this is on a
1600x1200 screen) eventually triggers tons of xruns when the window is
moved and is "large enough".
Samples of output from jack:
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.470 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.401 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.438 msecs
delay of 5728.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 2644.000;
restart ...
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.482 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.216 msecs
**** alsa_pcm: xrun of at least 7.476 msecs