Request reasonable buffer sizes from pulseaudio. Without this
pa_simple_write() can block quite long and lead to dropouts,
especially with guests which use small audio ring buffers.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Limit the size of data pieces processed by the pulseaudio worker
threads. Never ever process more than 1/4 of the buffer at once.
Background: The buffer area currently processed by the pulseaudio thread
is blocked, i.e. the main thread (or iothread) can't fill in more data
there. The buffer processing time is roughly real-time due to the
pa_simple_write() call blocking when the output queue to the pulse
server is full. Thus processing big chunks at once means blocking
a large part of the buffer for a long time. This brings high latency
and can lead to dropouts.
When processing the buffer in smaller chunks the rpos handling becomes a
problem though. The thread reads hw->rpos without knowing whenever
qpa_run_out has already seen the last (small) chunk processed and
updated rpos accordingly. There is no point in reading hw->rpos though,
pa->rpos can be used instead. We just need to take care to initialize
pa->rpos before kicking the thread.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Refactor the volume mixing, so it can be reused for capturing devices.
Additionally, it removes superfluous multiplications with the nominal
volume within the hardware voice code path.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Fix a rpos coordination bug between qpa_run_out() and qpa_thread_out(),
which shows up as playback noises.
qpa_run_out()
qpa_thread_out loop N critical section 1
qpa_run_out() qpa_thread_out loop N doing pa_simple_write()
qpa_run_out() qpa_thread_out loop N doing pa_simple_write()
qpa_thread_out loop N critical section 2
qpa_thread_out loop N+1 critical section 1
qpa_run_out() qpa_thread_out loop N+1 doing pa_simple_write()
In the above scheme, "qpa_thread_out loop N+1 critical section 1" will
get the same rpos as the one used by "qpa_thread_out loop N critical
section 1". So it will be reading dead samples from the old rpos.
The rpos can only be updated back to qpa_thread_out when there is a
qpa_run_out() run between two qpa_thread_out loops.
normal sequence:
qpa_thread_out:
hw->rpos (X0) => local rpos => pa->rpos (X1)
qpa_run_out:
pa->rpos (X1) => hw->rpos (X1)
qpa_thread_out:
hw->rpos (X1) => local rpos => pa->rpos (X2)
buggy sequence:
qpa_thread_out:
hw->rpos (X0) => local rpos => pa->rpos (X1)
qpa_thread_out:
hw->rpos (X0) => local rpos => pa->rpos (X1')
Obviously qpa_run_out() shall be called at least once between any two
qpa_thread_out loops (after pa->rpos is set), in order for the new
qpa_thread_out loop to see the updated rpos.
Setting pa->live to 0 does the trick. The next loop will have to wait
for one qpa_run_out() invocation in order to get a non-zero pa->live
and proceed.
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
We're seeing various issues with the SDL audio backend and want to
switch to the pulseaudio backend. See e.g.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/495964https://bugzilla.redhat.com/519540https://bugzilla.redhat.com/496627
The pulseaudio backend seems to work well, so we should allow it to be
selected as the default.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
pcm_ops.run_out now takes number of live samples (which will be always
greater than zero) as a second argument, every driver was calling
audio_pcm_hw_get_live_out anyway with exception of fmod which used
audio_pcm_hw_get_live_out2 for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Anthony Liguori