ALSA: HDA: Lessen CPU usage when waiting for chip to respond
authorDavid Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Fri, 4 May 2012 09:05:55 +0000 (11:05 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 20 May 2012 21:56:31 +0000 (22:56 +0100)
commit1eafe98560a3bf53d3b2e92fbbdfd6ac09166c11
tree42010f3ace669fdc772a55e627ea960a706ba901
parent7032ddada0b19778f97d97cbd17fc67257b36054
ALSA: HDA: Lessen CPU usage when waiting for chip to respond

commit 32cf4023e689ad5b3a81a749d8cc99d7f184cb99 upstream.

When an IRQ for some reason gets lost, we wait up to a second using
udelay, which is CPU intensive. This patch improves the situation by
waiting about 30 ms in the CPU intensive mode, then stepping down to
using msleep(2) instead. In essence, we trade some granularity in
exchange for less CPU consumption when the waiting time is a bit longer.

As a result, PulseAudio should no longer be killed by the kernel
for taking up to much RT-prio CPU time. At least not for *this* reason.

Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Arun Raghavan <arun.raghavan@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c