> > For avoid further misunderstanding: it's fine that CRAS *uses* such a short > period. It's often required for achieving a short latency. > > However, the question is whether the driver can set *only* this value for > making it working. IOW, if we don't have this constraint, what actually > happens? If the driver gives the period size alignment, wouldn't CRAS > choose 240? It won't. Without the constraint it becomes 432. Actually CRAS does not set period size specifically so the value depends on the constraint rules. [ 52.011146] sound pcmC1D0p: hw_param [ 52.011152] sound pcmC1D0p: ACCESS 0x1 [ 52.011155] sound pcmC1D0p: FORMAT 0x4 [ 52.011158] sound pcmC1D0p: SUBFORMAT 0x1 [ 52.011161] sound pcmC1D0p: SAMPLE_BITS [16:16] [ 52.011164] sound pcmC1D0p: FRAME_BITS [32:32] [ 52.011167] sound pcmC1D0p: CHANNELS [2:2] [ 52.011170] sound pcmC1D0p: RATE [48000:48000] [ 52.011173] sound pcmC1D0p: PERIOD_TIME [9000:9000] [ 52.011176] sound pcmC1D0p: PERIOD_SIZE [432:432] [ 52.011179] sound pcmC1D0p: PERIOD_BYTES [1728:1728] [ 52.011182] sound pcmC1D0p: PERIODS [474:474] [ 52.011185] sound pcmC1D0p: BUFFER_TIME [4266000:4266000] [ 52.011188] sound pcmC1D0p: BUFFER_SIZE [204768:204768] [ 52.011191] sound pcmC1D0p: BUFFER_BYTES [819072:819072] [ 52.011194] sound pcmC1D0p: TICK_TIME [0:0] Regards, Brent > > > Takashi