Re: rtirq, kernels >= 3.2 and udev

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On 05/09/2012 04:38 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 02:03 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> Hi all (and Rui),
>>
>> As noted in another thread I found out that the naming of the irq
>> processes of pci soundcards has changed with kernels >= 3.2 to be
>> uniform and predictable. That made it possible to change rtirq so that
>> (at least for pci cards) only the irq process that corresponds to the
>> soundcard gets an elevated priority - this was not completely reliable
>> before.
>>
>> Another nice (very nice I'd say) side effect of this change is that now
>> udev can be trivially used to change the priorities of soundcards
>> dynamically. I tested this while running 3.2.16-rt27 on a Fedora 14
>> system. I removed "snd" and "usb" of the rtirq sysconfig file so that it
>> would not touch those and rebooted. My hda_intel got the priority I
>> wanted, inserting (or removing) a usb or a pci-express card with a
>> Multiface II worked as well. Right now my simple script does not try to
>> order priorities, it just sets them to a fixed one. But well, it is a
>> start... Code attached (the udev rule goes into /etc/udev/rules.d/ in my
>> system)...
>>
>> This simple script also returns the priority of the usb irq for the
>> soundcard to 50 (the default) when the card is unplugged, but it does
>> not check for multiple cards (ie: even if another soundcard is still
>> using the same irq process it downgrades its priority), this should be
>> fixed.
>>
> 
> 
>> Feedback appreciated.
>> -- Fernando
>>
>> PS: Another rtirq script in /etc/pm/sleep.d/ could save the current
>> priorities before a suspend and restore them after a resume - that does
>> not happen currently.
> 
> what about just `rtirq restart` on the sleep.d script (on thaw|resume) ?

indeed. that works just fine here since over 2 years.

the scripts I use to retain jackd2 & qjackctl during suspend/resume
cycles are available from http://gareus.org/wiki/jack2contol
for dynamically switching audio-interfaces I settled on dbus (and not
udev, since jackd runs as user): http://gareus.org/blog/jack2dbus

> warning. there's no state salvage being done on bad old rtirq script. in
> fact `rtirq stop` is a plain nop by default, unless RTIRQ_RESET_ALL=1 is
> set (cf. /etc/rtirq.conf aka. /etc/sysconfig/rtirq) which makes all
> target irq service threads to reset to rtprio=50 but also to "normal"
> scheduling class(SCHED_OTHER). might not on par with the times :)
> 
> note that `rtirq restart` is actually the same function as `rtirq stop`
> immediately followed by `rtirq start`. however, as s the very same irq
> service threads are at stake, this whole remark might not be an issue
> after all:)
> 
> byee
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