Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:50:59 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: scottm@cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel), freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SNDCTL_DSP_SUBDIVIDE Message-ID: <199802160850.AAA23202@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 08:06:27 %2B0100." <199802160706.IAA27462@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> <MY VIEW OF THE WORLD> > The latter is something the application should _not_ do since the > amount of kernel buffering depends on a variety of factors (audio > hw, avai. memory, CPU speed, system load, etc.) which the application > has no way to know, and is better left to the driver. > > On top of this, few if any applications are prepared to handle > situations where the kernel says "sorry I cannot handle this request". > > The sensible way to operate would be, in my opinion, to let the kernel > use how much buffering it decides to, and check the amount of queued > data before writing, if one really wants to keep queues short. > </MY VIEW OF THE WORLD> > I wish I could turn the clock one year right before the new sound driver project started. It is teaching this old man a good lesson. Good Nite, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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