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Re: Can not play audio with screen off

From Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Can not play audio with screen off
Date 2016-05-24 21:50 +0200
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Hi!

> > > I'm playing some more with N900, this time I'd like to use it as a
> > > alarm clock...
> > > 
> > > And now I realized I can not, because system performance is so
> > > horrible with screen off that mpg123 + pulseaudio skips horribly. This
> > > is without tweaking serial parameters, so CPU is definitely not going
> > > into the idle/off modes.
> > > 
> > > Loading CPU fixes the issue (I used cat /dev/zero > /dev/null).
> > > 
> > > Hmm. And it seems to work better if I ssh in and launch mpg123
> > > remotely. Weird.
> > > 
> > > Kernel 4.5-rc0. Will try on different ones.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas? Is there interface to tell kernel that better performance
> > > is needed for a while?
> 
> > pm_qos cpu_dma_latency? Drivers will have to be properly instrumented
> > with appropriate latency values -> this will control the depth in C
> > states that the system will attempt. NOTE: it is a dual edged sword,
> > bad configurations can result in none of the C-states being entered.
> 
> Ok, so far it looks like artefact of -rc0 kernel. Lets see if it
> reappers...

Hmm. So it happens in vanilla 4.4, too... let me see if it happens in
v4.6.

									Pavel
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Can not play audio with screen off Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-16 04:10 +0200
  Re: Can not play audio with screen off Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> - 2016-05-16 16:30 +0200
    Re: Can not play audio with screen off Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-16 17:10 +0200
      Re: Can not play audio with screen off Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-05-24 21:50 +0200

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