[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] ALSA: usb-audio: more tolerant packetsize

[Clemens Ladisch]

Jiada Wang wrote:
> since commit 57e6dae1087b ("ALSA: usb-audio: do not trust too-big
> wMaxPacketSize values"), the expected packetsize is always limited
> to nominal + 25%. It was discovered, that some devices

Android audio accessory

> have a much
> higher jitter in used packetsizes than 25% which would result in BABBLE
> condition and dropping of packets.
> A better solution is so assume the jitter to be the nominal packetsize:
> -one nearly empty packet followed by a almost 150% sized one.
>
> V2: changed to assume max frequency is +50 of nominal packetsize.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Pape <apape at de.adit-jv.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiada Wang <jiada_wang at mentor.com>

Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de>

> --- a/sound/usb/endpoint.c
> +++ b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
> @@ -632,8 +632,8 @@ static int data_ep_set_params(struct snd_usb_endpoint *ep,
>  	ep->stride = frame_bits >> 3;
>  	ep->silence_value = pcm_format == SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_U8 ? 0x80 : 0;
>
> -	/* assume max. frequency is 25% higher than nominal */
> -	ep->freqmax = ep->freqn + (ep->freqn >> 2);
> +	/* assume max. frequency is 50% higher than nominal */
> +	ep->freqmax = ep->freqn + (ep->freqn >> 1);
>  	/* Round up freqmax to nearest integer in order to calculate maximum
>  	 * packet size, which must represent a whole number of frames.
>  	 * This is accomplished by adding 0x0.ffff before converting the