When DSP pipelines have a SRC (like the SOF nocodec topology since commit 2a7a94d238a117946acc25607ad0978ea4923d9e by @singalsu ), the IPC4 delay reporting is not working correctly in SOF Linux driver.
This was originally discovered by runnign alsa_conformance_test on SOF nocodec topology's PCM2 (that has the SRCs).
Alternatively, observing the PCM runtime status during e.g.
aplay -Dhw:0,2 -r 96000 -c 2 -f s16_le -traw /dev/zero -vv
... shows PCM delay to continuously increase.
Tested with SOF FW and Linux of 2025-07-30.