On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Alan Stern wrote: > [Steve: Sorry for dumping you into the middle of this discussion. > Please see especially the last two paragraphs below. Mikulas is > getting dropouts with USB audio because part of the processing uses a > tasklet.] The problem is this: I have a single core machine with a usb2 sound card. When I increase the priority of a music player, the audio starts skipping. The reason for the skipping is that the ehci usb driver is offloading urb callbacks using tasklet_hi_schedule, the callbacks end up being offloaded to the ksoftirqd thread (that has priority 0), the music player with elevated priority preempts ksoftirqd and causes delays in the urb callbacks. Is this some deficiency in the softirq subsystem? (should we perhaps treat tasklet_hi specially and not offload it as much as the others?) Or should the ehci driver be fixed not to use tasklets? Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
