On 12/04/12 13:41, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > Does the patch really cause this, or is the difference because of the > self-compiled libcanberra? That is, if you compile libcanberra without > the patch, does it return to the old behavior? I compiled libcaberra before *without* the patch, running with this for several days. Then I applied the patch and recompiled and installed. I did not deliberately make any other changes, but if this really boils down to a thread scheduling problem, I guess that "anything" may be the culprit. [...] > Hmm, here's another idea: could you try marking the state field of > pa_operation as volatile? The pa_operation struct is defined in > src/pulse/internal.h. I expect that this won't help, but maybe the > compiler is able to do more optimization magic than I think is > possible... On a related note, the play_request_processed variable in > my patch should have been marked as volatile too. Will have a look at this later... /Henrik
