(In reply to Timo Jyrinki from comment #106) > (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. Just to be sure: did you already test the kernel in OBS Kernel:HEAD, which is based on the latest 4.20-rc?