'Twas brillig, and Pierre-Louis Bossart at 31/01/11 19:20 did gyre and gimble: > This patch reflects a new capability that Lennart was wishing > for. Wish granted... > > Re-submitting it now that alsa-lib 1.0.24 > provides additional entry points to disable period > wakeups in timer-scheduling mode if hardware can > work without it (HDAudio, oxygen and Intel SST). > > Example with standard playback on HDAudio output > Before change: > > Top causes for wakeups: > 3.8% ( 5.4) [hda_intel] <interrupt> > 2.8% ( 4.0) alsa-sink > > After change: > Top causes for wakeups: > 2.3% ( 3.0) alsa-sink I can't actually test this, but I know you have been working on this closely of late so trust you completely :) Thanks and pushed. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]