audio/paaudio: prolong and make latency configurable

The latency of a connection to the PulseAudio server is determined by
the tlength parameter. This was hardcoded to 10ms, which is a bit too
tight on my machine, causing audio on host and guest to malfunction.
A setting of 15ms works fine here. To allow tweaking, I also made the
setting configurable via the new -audiodev config. This allows to squeeze out better timings in scenarios where the emulation allows it.

I also removed setting of the minreq parameter to (seemingly arbitrary) half the latency, since it showed worse audio quality during my tests. Allowing PulseAudio to request smaller chunks helped.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>
Message-id: 20190315084653.120020-3-martin@schrodt.org
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

diff --git a/audio/paaudio.c b/audio/paaudio.c
index ab2a37bbdba3993f2e43ab72be01a50bc419e165..be27c73f094ae241824be75b73fe7401701594a5 100644 (file)
--- a/audio/paaudio.c
+++ b/audio/paaudio.c
@@ -549,12 +549,8 @@ static int qpa_init_out(HWVoiceOut *hw, struct audsettings *as,
     ss.channels = as->nchannels;
     ss.rate = as->freq;
 
-    /*
-     * qemu audio tick runs at 100 Hz (by default), so processing
-     * data chunks worth 10 ms of sound should be a good fit.
-     */
-    ba.tlength = pa_usec_to_bytes (10 * 1000, &ss);
-    ba.minreq = pa_usec_to_bytes (5 * 1000, &ss);
+    ba.tlength = pa_usec_to_bytes(ppdo->latency, &ss);
+    ba.minreq = -1;
     ba.maxlength = -1;
     ba.prebuf = -1;
 
@@ -818,6 +814,10 @@ static int qpa_validate_per_direction_opts(Audiodev *dev,
         pdo->has_buffer_length = true;
         pdo->buffer_length = 46440;
     }
+    if (!pdo->has_latency) {
+        pdo->has_latency = true;
+        pdo->latency = 15000;
+    }
     return 1;
 }
 

diff --git a/qapi/audio.json b/qapi/audio.json
index 97aee3728835aa98da18e800310e5c30fe291372..9fefdf5186dd48f8e4ad5e52ad86a4dfce354296 100644 (file)
--- a/qapi/audio.json
+++ b/qapi/audio.json
@@ -206,12 +206,16 @@
 #
 # @name: name of the sink/source to use
 #
+# @latency: latency you want PulseAudio to achieve in microseconds
+#           (default 15000)
+#
 # Since: 4.0
 ##
 { 'struct': 'AudiodevPaPerDirectionOptions',
   'base': 'AudiodevPerDirectionOptions',
   'data': {
-    '*name': 'str' } }
+    '*name': 'str',
+    '*latency': 'uint32' } }
 
 ##
 # @AudiodevPaOptions: