alsa-project/alsa-lib issue #221 was opened from davidboulangerlatour:

I have an application which plays a wav file (using dshare) at with a specific period (ie. every 720ms). This always worked well up to recently after upgrading alsa-lib from 1.1.7 to 1.2.4. With 1.2.4, the cycles look like this [750ms, 750ms, 750ms, 625ms], normally it would be [720ms, 720ms, ...].

When doing a bisect to find the issue, I found this commit to be the cause: ``` 7265e603bf880a9ec2cd01c3cf2afbd7709e5af4 is the first bad commit commit 7265e603bf880a9ec2cd01c3cf2afbd7709e5af4 Author: Vanitha Channaiah vanitha.channaiah@in.bosch.com Date: Wed May 15 11:56:33 2019 +0530

pcm: dshare: Added "hw_ptr_alignment" option in configuration for alignment of slave pointers

This change adapt the fix commit 6b058fda9dce ("pcm: dmix: Add option to allow alignment of slave pointers") for dshare plugin

Issue is that snd_pcm_wait() goes back to waiting because the hw_ptr is not period aligned. Therefore snd_pcm_wait() will block for a longer time as required.

With these rcar driver changes the exact position of the dma is returned. During snd_pcm_start they read hw_ptr as reference, and this hw_ptr is now not period aligned, and is a little ahead over the period while it is read. Therefore when the avail is calculated during snd_pcm_wait(), it is missing the avail_min by a few frames.

An additional option hw_ptr_alignment is provided to dshare configuration, to allow the user to configure the slave application and hw pointer alignment at startup

Signed-off-by: Vanitha Channaiah vanitha.channaiah@in.bosch.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de

src/pcm/pcm_dshare.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) ```

I tried the more recent 1.2.6 with the same issue. I also tried all the "hw_ptr_alignment" options with no success.

Issue URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/issues/221 Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib