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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-08 13:36:36 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-08 13:37:18 +0200 |
commit | ca7e0c612005937a4a5a75d3fed90459993de65c (patch) | |
tree | b574fc0f0189b52ffc87ba20c418228db556faa1 /Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt | |
parent | 8141d0050d76e5695011b5ab577ec66fb51a998c (diff) | |
parent | f5284e7635787224dda1a2bf82a4c56b1c75671f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt index f4dd3bf..98d14cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt @@ -119,10 +119,18 @@ the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports. Interrupt Handling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -In rare but some cases, the interrupt isn't properly handled as -default. You would notice this by the DMA transfer error reported by -ALSA PCM core, for example. Using MSI might help in such a case. -Pass `enable_msi=1` option for enabling MSI. +HD-audio driver uses MSI as default (if available) since 2.6.33 +kernel as MSI works better on some machines, and in general, it's +better for performance. However, Nvidia controllers showed bad +regressions with MSI (especially in a combination with AMD chipset), +thus we disabled MSI for them. + +There seem also still other devices that don't work with MSI. If you +see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up +in the recent kernel, try to pass `enable_msi=0` option to disable +MSI. If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist +defined in hda_intel.c. In such a case, please report and give the +patch back to the upstream developer. HD-AUDIO CODEC |