[alsa-devel] ASoC: mmap or read/write?

[Mike Looijmans]

On 10/19/2012 11:36 AM, Prasant J wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
>> Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>> From: Prasant J <pj0585 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Prasant J wrote:
>>>>>> I'm writing an alsa application for recording & playing 16 channel audio.
>>>> I'm working with Beaglebone (ARM Cortex-A8 720 MHz). (Currently
>>>> failures are for 8 channels 32 bit / 16 bit, but our final target is
>>>> 16 channels)
>>>>
>>>> I have managed to get Audio capture working fine (after certain linux
>>>> optimizations) but playback is giving under-runs (only when PLAYBACK &
>>>> CAPTURE run together)
>>> You must be doing something wrong. I'm doing 32-bit, 16-channel input
>>> at 51.2kHz on a OMAP-L138 (an ARM9 CPU at 450 MHz)
>>
> @Mike:
> I'm playing & recording at the same time, that should be the reason.
Good point, my board only a has a single playback channel.

> When I was using arecord (only capture) I was getting overruns and
> only after making some linux optimizations, I was able to record
> properly. Are you 100% sure you do not observe any errors? Did you do
> tests for longer durations?

I've had it running for about an hour, using /dev/null as a target 
because I don't have enough memory to store that much data.

I did get lots of underruns/overruns while getting started, but they 
turned out te be related to clock configurations. So take a really good 
look at those, the way the registers are being set are often very 
obscure and register defines often don't match the datasheet.

>> Playback and capture at the same time seems to be harder for certain
>> embedded devices.  I don't know if this is a driver bug or a hardware
>> limitation.
> @Clemens:
> The bottle-neck is SD card access. Driver bug cannot be ruled out, but
> it is difficult to evaluate.
Sound familiar, on my board a USB SD cardreader connected to the USB 
port was actually faster than the built-in 4-wire SD.

Mike.


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Mike Looijmans

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