[alsa-devel] Semantics of a single period per buffer?

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Dave Dillow wrote:

> While refining the sis7019 for submission, I found a possible issue with
> having a single period per buffer. The easy way out is to set the
> minimum number of periods to 2, but I see other drivers allow a single
> period. This leads to a question about the semantics of a single period
> that I've not been able to resolve using Google.
> 
> Any one have any thoughts or pointers to a discussion on having a single
> period per buffer? Should it be a one-shot play, or just let it hit XRUN
> every time? Other ideas?

I think, one period buffer can be only useable when XRUN check is disabled 
(endless ring buffer playing) and application has own timing and polls for 
the actual position in the ring buffer.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project