Jaroslav Kysela kirjoitti:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
Hello,
Some years ago there was some talk about UST support in Linux, but the support never happened. With the hrtimers patch (and I'm not quite sure if even earlier?) CLOCK_MONOTONIC would seem like a fairly good UST time source. What I'd like to see, is a selectable clock for ALSA timestamping, e.g. something like snd_sw_params_clock(..., clockid_t clk). Would this seem plausible? I don't know that much about ALSA internals, so, no idea whether different clocks on different pcms/whatever would quickly turn into an unmanageable mess.
We are aware about this extension and I already proposed an implementation. I hope to implement it soon. Timestamps are not used in driver internally.
I had a look at the proposal and the thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/45237/focus=45573 I don't know about the history of SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_TSTAMP, but since it currently seems unused I don't see a problem reusing it for something (else). However, I think that it'd be nicer to define the API to use a POSIX clock id instead of some arbitrary constants, because there have been/are other clocks on Linux, for example, CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE. An update to pcm_status might also be in order to tell which clock is being used.
-- Heikki Lindholm