[alsa-devel] Question on wait_for_avail function

[Clemens Ladisch]

gsantosh at codeaurora.org wrote:
> 2) HAL issues pause in parallel to the write

This is illegal.
<http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/SMP_Design> says:
| The use of returned handles [such as snd_pcm_t*] must be serialized in
| the application using own locking scheme.

If you want to issue a pause while waiting for data to be written, use
non-blocking writes.


Regards,
Clemens