[linux-audio-dev] Re: Graph reordering

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Wed Jun 16 16:08:42 UTC 2004


>>From: Alfons Adriaensen <fons.adriaensen at alcatel.be>
>>
>>On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:37:09AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>>> you cannot modify the graph in JACK while the graph is being used to
>>> process audio. you do not know how long the graph modification will
>>> take if you try to do it (for example) right after you're done with
>>> one process cycle. the only sure way to do this is to use lock free
>>> parallel programming techniques.
>
>Would anyone please explane details of these techniques?

No. Google for "herlihy lock free". Dozens of references. Papers range
from about 12 years ago to this year.

--p




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