[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] ARM: staging: bcm2835-audio: interpolate audio delay

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Mike,

> Mike Brady <mikebrady at eircom.net> hat am 11. November 2018 um 19:21 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> When the BCM2835 audio output is used, userspace sees a jitter up to 10ms
> in the audio position, aka "delay" -- the number of frames that must
> be output before a new frame would be played.
> Make this a bit nicer for userspace by interpolating the position
> using the CPU clock.
> The overhead is small -- an extra ktime_get() every time a GPU message
> is sent -- and another call and a few calculations whenever the delay
> is sought from userland.
> At 48,000 frames per second, i.e. approximately 20 microseconds per
> frame, it would take a clock inaccuracy of
> 20 microseconds in 10 milliseconds -- 2,000 parts per million --
> to result in an inaccurate estimate, whereas
> crystal- or resonator-based clocks typically have an
> inaccuracy of 10s to 100s of parts per million.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Brady <mikebrady at eircom.net>

the former version of your patch has already been applied to staging-next.

Didn't you received Greg's email?

So please rebase your changes.

Stefan