Re: old radeon latency problem still unfixed?

[Andrew Morton]

Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Users report that this patch:
> 
>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00072.html
> 
>  is still needed to eliminate audio underruns for Radeon users.

That's a 2.6.4 patch which generates 100% rejects.

But still, if that patch helped and didn't throw a billion might_sleep()
and people were using preemptible kernels then we have a lock_kernel()
problem.  A suitable fix would be to make sure all the locking's tight and
to convert DRM to use unlocked_ioctl.
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