Re: Ticks when playing to USB DAC at high sample rates

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On 07.11.2012 10:01, Daniel Mack wrote:
> On 07.11.2012 00:54, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>> I guess that snd_usb_pcm_prepare is called by the core usb system to prepare 
>> the snd driver.  Anyway, snd_usb_pcm_prepare calls configure_endpoint with a 
>> substream.  Then configure_endpoint calls snd_usb_endpoint_set_params with the 
>> data endpoint that corresponds to the substream.  snd_usb_endpoint_set_params 
>> calls data_ep_set_params with the data ep and data_ep_set_params sets nurbs to 
>> 2 for the data endpoint.
>>
>> snd_usb_endpoint_set_params has code to call sync_ep_set_params when the 
>> endpoint is type sync.  sync_ep_set_params sets nurbs to 4 (why?).  However, 
>> snd_usb_endpoint_set_params never invokes the call to sync_ep_set_params 
>> because ep->type is always data.  Back up: snd_usb_endpoint_set_params is 
>> called from configure_endpoint.  It is called from an if block contingent on 
>> the substream's having a sync endpoint.  It does.  However, the call to 
>> snd_usb_endpoint_set_params passes subs->data_endpoint as the first argument, 
>> so snd_usb_endpoint_set_params simply repeats the operations it performed as a 
>> result of the previous invocation.  I presume that the first argument to the 
>> second call to snd_usb_endpoint_set_params should be subs->sync_endpoint.
> 
> Eh. You clearly spotted a bug here. The rally interesting thing is that
> that it didn't bite us earlier, as it's in since 3.6.
> 
>>  I 
>> made that change.  Now freqm does change.  However, I am getting tons of 
>> ticks.  Now it sounds as if the payload size is always wrong.
>>
>> Oh, 44.1 kHz works.  48 kHz works.  88.2 and 96 don't work.
> 
> That's a different issue. Would you like to prepare a patch for the
> issue above please?

Thinking about it further, that could also explain the memory corruption
we've revently seen in that driver ...


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