Re: Sound skipping problems

Jeff Roberson wrote:
> I have a patch that should greatly improve the sound skipping problems
> people have under heavy io load.  Several people sent me traces that
> showed the buf daemon running for hundreds of milliseconds with Giant
> held, which can hold up the pcm code.  The patch is available at:
> 
> http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/flushbuf.diff

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Can I use the patch on 5.4-STABLE? It applies cleanly (with offset,
though), but I prefer to ask before doing useless tests.

Simon