On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:13:03 +0200, > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > Heya, > > > > the HDA driver allows a playback buffer size of something like 64K > > onyl. Is this a driver limitation or a limitation of the hardware? > > Skimming through the docs I cannot see anything like this, and I got > > the idea that the audio buffer is maintained in system memory, not > > sound card memory, so why this limit? > > This comes from the buffer pre-allocator. > Run the below: > > # echo 1024 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/prealloc > > then you can use now 1MB buffer. snd-hda-intel has max > pre-allocation buffer size 1MB, and this is the hard-coded limit. > > It's rather a silly constraint, and I think it'd be better cut off. > OTOH, this makes the system safer (e.g. avoiding page allocations for > too large buffers), and there is a proper workaround, too. > So, I'm open about this change, so far. Which workaround you're talking about? Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
