[linux-audio-dev] Audio/Midi system - RT prios..

Florian Schmidt mista.tapas at gmx.net
Fri Dec 30 23:31:09 UTC 2005


On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:54:53 +0100
"Ralf Beck" <musical_snake at gmx.de> wrote:

> Suppose a jack thread is running and your midiin device irq comes in but not
> through,
> because the device's irq thread has lower priority and does not get
> scheduled!

This is an interesting question: How is midi activity on physical ports
handled? Is it polled? Or is the soundcard IRQ used for this, too? In
the latter case the soundcard IRQ should definetly have a higher prio
than all jack stuff.

Flo

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