On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:11 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > AFAICT it's more like trading 3D performance for having audio work at
> > all. Other video drivers that were too aggressive and caused audio
> > dropouts (VIA) were fixed, even though there was a slight performance
> > cost.
>
> In addition, the radeon DRI shouldn't do active spinning like that in
> "normal" circumstances ... it should instead block on interrupts. if it
> does, I suppose that could safely be considered as a bug in the radeon
> DRM/DRI driver. It will do such loops on engine reset and such, which
> happen on X launch, VT switches or in case of lockups... I have to
> double check what happens in the code path used for 2d/3d transitions
> though, those might be a problem.
What about switching from 2D->3D mode, like when xscreensaver kicks in?
IIRC people reported audio underruns when that happened but I could
never narrow it down any further.
If as Arjan said the only lock this driver takes is the BKL then it's
either a local config issue (ancient kernel or failure to enable preempt
BKL) or something at the hardware level... I'm waiting for more info
from the original reporter.
Lee
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