[linux-audio-dev] Beginner question about ring buffer and block processing

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 16:47 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Friday 27 May 2005 16:14, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:41 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> > > Can I just consider the case where no
> > > dsp thread is created to understand the buffering issue ? What is the
> > > dsp thread for exactly ?
> > I believe JAMin creates a second thread if JACK is running at a very low
> > latency, to improve the DSP efficiency, or something.  So I think you
> > can ignore that case for now.  I don't have the code in front of me,
> > this is just what I have heard on the list.
> 
> Isn't jamin (like any other jack-app) already using two threads, one for audio 
> and one for gui?
> 

Yes, I meant to say, it creates another audio thread.

Lee