[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: pcm - introduce soc_delay

[Vinod Koul]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 15:49 +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > In many modern SoCs the audio DSP can buffer the PCM ring buffer data. Today we
> > have no means to represent this buffering and ALSA wrongly detects an overrun
> > when hw_ptr reaches app_ptr value, though DSP may still have some buffered data.
> >
> > This patch tries to add a new field "soc_delay" to represent buffering done in
> > DSPs. This value is also used for the xrun calculations in ALSA.
> >
> Couldn't we employ snd_pcm_hw_params.fifo_size for the purpose ?
Nope, that should be used to represent the delay in samples being output
not the sample which are buffered and processed in a DSP

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~Vinod