[alsa-devel] Disabling buffer fill level preprocessing by ALSA

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 08.01.08 09:00, Jaroslav Kysela (perex at perex.cz) wrote:

> > So, depending on what clients are connected, we dynamically change the
> > wakeups. Now, on ALSA (and with a lot of sound hw, as I understood
> > Takashi) you cannot reconfigure the period sizes dynamically without
> > interruptions of audio output. That's why I want to disable the whole
> > period/buffer fill level management of ALSA, and do all myself with
> > system timers, which I thankfully now can due to the advent of
> > hrtimers (at least on Linux/x86). System timers nowadays are a lot
> > more flexibe than the PCM timer, because they can be reconfigured all
> > the time without any drawbacks. They are not dependant on period sizes
> > or other stuff which may only be reconfigured by resetting the audio
> > devices. The only drawback is that we need to determinine how the
> > sound card clock and the system clock deviate.
> > 
> > Does that make sense to you?
> 
> Yes, but I don't see any problem to change avail_min dynamically 
> (sw_params can be changed at any time), so each interrupt can be catched 
> via poll(). But I really think that one timing source (system timers) is 
> enough.

OK. I wasn't really aware that you could change sw params
dynamically. I will do this now. This should be sufficient for my needs.

Lennart

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