Re: HDA buffer alignment

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"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote on 13:00 16/03/2007 +0100 :
> At Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:54:02 +0100,
> Joachim Deguara wrote:
>> >From the HDA spec it appears that the buffers written to the BDL and
>> sent to a codec must be 128 byte aligned (section 4.5.1).  The alignment
>> was not happening especially when playing 6 channels.  This patch set
>> the alignment of buffers and periods to 128 bytes.
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> The changes look good to me, but please fold lines to fit within 80
> chars.  Also, please give a sign-off for the patch to apply to the
> upstream.

>From the HDA spec it appears that the buffers written to the BDL and
sent to a codec must be 128 byte aligned (section 4.5.1).  The alignment
was not happening especially when playing 6 channels.  This patch set
the alignment of buffers and periods to 128 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@xxxxxxx>

diff -r f8284261b2be pci/hda/hda_intel.c
--- a/pci/hda/hda_intel.c       Thu Mar 15 15:10:28 2007 +0100
+++ b/pci/hda/hda_intel.c       Fri Mar 16 07:04:47 2007 +0100
@@ -1087,6 +1087,10 @@ static int azx_pcm_open(struct snd_pcm_s
        runtime->hw.rates = hinfo->rates;
        snd_pcm_limit_hw_rates(runtime);
        snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer(runtime, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIODS);
+       snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step(runtime, 0, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_BUFFER_BYTES,
+                                  128);
+        snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step(runtime, 0, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_BYTES,
+                                  128);
        if ((err = hinfo->ops.open(hinfo, apcm->codec, substream)) < 0) {
                azx_release_device(azx_dev);
                mutex_unlock(&chip->open_mutex);




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