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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +0200 |
| commit | 6c9468e9eb1252eaefd94ce7f06e1be9b0b641b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 797676a336b050bfa1ef879377c07e541b9075d6 /Documentation/sound | |
| parent | 4cb3ca7cd7e2cae8d1daf5345ec99a1e8502cf3f (diff) | |
| parent | c81eddb0e3728661d1585fbc564449c94165cc36 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6c9468e9eb1252eaefd94ce7f06e1be9b0b641b1.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt index f4dd3bf99d12..98d14cb8a85d 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 |