On 9/6/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > At Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:19:10 +0200, > Arve Knudsen wrote: > > > > Hi Takashi > > > > On 9/5/07, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > At Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:03:27 +0200, > > > Arve Knudsen wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > Users of the PortAudio library on top of ALSA-lib have reported that > it > > > may > > > > hang in a call to snd_pcm_drain. I have also been able to confirm > that > > > this > > > > can happen in conjunction with the dmix device at least. Can the > ALSA > > > > developers please tell me how, if at all, snd_pcm_drain may be > safely > > > used? > > > > Is this function simply best avoided (snd_pcm_drop being the > > > alternative)? > > > > > > Of course, it's supposed to be safe to use :) But, it's hard to tell > > > you more unless I get the details in your case... > > > > > > In which situation is it called? Are they multi-threaded? > > > > > > The lock-up happens in a background thread within PortAudio. What has > been > > known to cause lock-ups at least is that PA restarts the device after > the > > detection of an xrun. This procedure entails first draining the stream > > (snd_pcm_drain), the dmix and front devices have been known to lock up > here > > (I've experienced it with dmix at least). I've googled a bit on the > problem, > > and I didn't find a whole lot of evidence of this problem, but I did > find > > this: > http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5344/contributors/32264/commits/10293341 > > . > > It's still hard to imagine what's going on there without a small test > case. I vaguely remember a similar problem, but I thought it should > have been fixed in the recent versions. I can try to procure a test case, but I believe it happens rather randomly. Arve _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
