[linux-audio-dev] jack and alsa design issue

[Hans Fugal]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 at 11:35 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Sorry, the other thread idea is in order to avoid SIGIO. The thread
> >would select on the audio device and drain it into a ringbuffer for the
> >other thread to use.
> 
> s/select/poll/ => welcome to JACK :))
> 
> you really want to do all this work over again?

I want to do as little as possible. :-)

Part of the problem is that the non-audio thread goes to the network
which means blocking, which means I can't just do it all within
jack_process(). 

Thanks to all your comments and questions I think my head has cleared. I
will use a ringbuffer between jack_process() and the network thread, and
emulate that when using ALSA. Someday, when jack starts itself as
needed (as I understand is planned), I wouldn't need to support ALSA.

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