linux-kernel - Re: Possible Bug Found with Xonar Stx Driver

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:13:38 +0200
From:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
To:	nick <xerofoify@...il.com>
CC:	tiwai@...e.de, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible Bug Found with Xonar Stx Driver

nick wrote:
> After running the latest version of Linus's tree I am noticed way more buffering

What exactly do you mean with the word "buffering"?

> when playing music with my Xonar STX card when building kernels then
> under the Ubuntu kernel version of 3.19.16.

Sounds like a change in the disk access patterns.

The audio buffer size is chosen by the playing application (whatever it
is).

> I have tried bisecting it between the releases of 3.18 and 4.0
> and was unable to narrow it down to a buggy commit.

There was no relevant change in the sound driver.


Regards,
Clemens
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