(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #102) > So I'm building a TW kernel with the config changes above to follow Fedora > in OBS home:tiwai:bsc1112824 repo. The build should finish in an hour or so. > > Please give it a try and see whether if this really improves things as > advertised here. I don't see difference on my Intel machine with the 4.19.8-1.g8bc7ab5-default nosmt=force ie disabling hyperthreading is something that does seem to make a real tangible difference for me. With it the most annoying lags are gone. The effect is the same both with 4.19.7 and the one from home:tiwai:bsc1112824, so in other words the changed configuration there does not seem to affect this behavior. This is based on 10+ boots.