At Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:14:08 -0500, Trent Piepho wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
At Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:40:42 +0000 (UTC), Rob Krakora wrote:
Would you be able to point me the the ALSA documentation that indicates the stipulations on handle usage using multiple threads? I cannot find it.
Think other way round: The fact that it isn't documented means it's not safe to use in that way :)
The introduction on the alsa-project home page says, "SMP and thread-safe design. " Some people might misunderstand what thread-safe means. Maybe some clarification could be added. "Different streams are SMP and thread-safe (calls for the same stream must be serialized)."
Yeah this should be corrected. SMP things are just about the kernel side at that time.
It's a Wiki, feel free to correct / improve the text.
Takashi