[alsa-devel] MIDI on ice1724 - real-time kernel problem

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:07:42 +0200,
Pavel Hofman wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:06:19 +0200,
> > Pavel Hofman wrote:
> >> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>> I do not know the reason for MPU401_INFO_NO_ACK. You removed it from the
> >>>> original patch, but without it I always get the input/output error.
> >>> Ah, thanks, I overlooked it.
> >>> Fixed now.
> >> Takashi, thanks, but the patch I sent you sets MPU401_INFO_INPUT and 
> >> MPU401_INFO_OUTPUT flags too. They enable the actual input/output 
> >> methods in mpu401_uart.c.
> > 
> > They aren't needed if you create full-duplex streams.
> > Could you check whether the latest code still causes any errors?
> 
> The code works fine on standard kernel.
> 
> But in the RT kernel of Ubuntu 7.10 (2.6.22-14-rt, 1000HZ compared to
> 250HZ of the -generic kernel), MIDI interrupts get thrown continuously,
> hogging CPU with the IRQXX "process".
> 
> When playing 44.1kHz audio with buffer size of 32768,
> snd_vt1724_interrupt is called every 185ms. With the buffer size of 
> 4096, it is every 23ms. So far so good.
> 
> But when I try to output some midi, the routine gets called every 24us
> (i.e. 1000 times faster). Comparing the time difference between my
> several debug printk's in snd_vt1724_interrupt (approx. 5us between each
> printk record a few lines of code apart) and between each call of the
> method (24us), I thought there would be a loop somewhere in the
> interrupt handler calling code. But /proc/interrupts really shows over
> 40k interrupts a second for ICE1724.
> 
> Changing the watermarks up to 0x1f makes no difference.

That looks bad.

> Masking the MIDI interrupts works, snd_vt1724_interrupt is called only
> during VT1724_IRQ_MTPCM interrupts, with the MIDI status bits
> MPU_TX/MPU_RX set when reading/writing with amidi.

Hm, is it TX or RX, or in both cases?
Could you check which one (TX or RX) causes this?


Takashi


> My HW: ancient AMD Duron 900MHz.
> 
> The interrupt flood occurs no matter whether the MIDI input is connected 
> to my MIDI keyboard or not.
> 
> Thanks a lot to anyone for suggestions.
> 
> 
> Pavel.
> 
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