[alsa-devel] Allocating buffers for USB transfers (again)

[Daniel Mack]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Sarah Sharp
<sarah.a.sharp at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 03:28:42AM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
>> > On 12. 8. 2011 Daniel Mack wrote:
>> >> > This patch actually makes the sound playback _worse_. Now I get strange
>> >> > squawks where previously at least first seconds of a song sounded
>> >> > normally.
>> >> >
>> >> > However, I no longer get "zero length buffer submitted" or that "...
>> >> > Weird." debug messages, only several megabytes of: (should I post these
>> >> > somewhere?)
>> >> >
>> >> > xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: Giveback URB ffff880114cec000, len = 880,
>> >> > expected = 1000, status = -115
>> >> > xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: Giveback URB ffff880114740000, len = 352,
>> >> > expected = 1000, status = -115
>> >> > xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: underrun event on endpoint
>> >>
>> >> Might be the hardware doesn't like this. As I said, the patch is blindly
>> >> written and I couldn't test it. Did you test this on a EHCI port as well?
>> >
>> > Good point, this patch distorts the playback also on the EHCI port. (the
>> > playback seems to be 10 times slower than it should be)
>>
>> And it is only this *last* patch that causes it, yes?
>>
>> If that is the case, we need empty subframes in the middle of urbs,
>> and we need to figure a way how to teach the XHCI driver to cope with
>> that, too.
>
> By empty subframes, you mean zero-length frame buffers in the middle of
> the URB, correct?

Yep.

> Andiry and Alan had some suggestions for how to fix
> that, so I'll try to cook up a patch tomorrow.  Then we'll have to
> "unpeel" the debug patches and make sure the system is still usable.

Good :) And I'll make a patch to make double-submission impossible in
a nice way.


Daniel