[linux-audio-dev] XAP: Strings and Raw Data Controls

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:10:42PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> Yes, and that's one of the few cases where the host is marshalling 
> events. (It has to, because the event system in itself isn't thread 
> safe.) The host can either use an RT memory manager, or just restrict 
> things to one string/data block per engine cycle.

That sounds reasonable.
 
> There is a feature for allocating audio buffers from the host. 
> Problem is that they're not of a hardcoded size, and they're 
> generally rather small; at most a few hundred bytes for low latency 
> hosts.

I can think of situations where you might want a few kB, eg. FFT plugins.

- Steve