[LAU] Re: [Jackit-devel] Fwd: Hardware Choices

[Thomas Vecchione]

Appreciate the response thank you.  Always happy to be proven wrong;)

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On 8/7/07, Stéphane Letz <letz at grame.fr> wrote:
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> > (CC-ed to jack-audio-dev list)
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> > "Thomas Vecchione":
> >>
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> >> On 7/20/07, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at notam02.no> wrote:
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> >>>
> >>> "Thomas Vecchione" <seablaede at gmail.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> I heard Jack (jackdmp?) could only take advantage of two cores
> >>>> right
> >>> now?
> >>>
> >>> No.
> >>>
> >> Mind being a bit more specific?  As in no it will handle 4,8, or
> >> 16 cores
> >> well?
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, that was a short rude answer, especially since I'm not 100%
> > sure of
> > the answer either. But I would be surprised if jackdmp was limited
> > to two,
> > or any other high-value fixed number of, parallel sound processing
> > threads.
> >
> > And on the other hand, if you are wrong, which I think you are,
> > although
> > I'm not 100% sure about that, you could be responsible for
> > continuing to spread a(nother) misunderstanding about jackdmp. (The
> > previous one was that jackdmp could not work on single processor
> > machines)
> >
> >
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> jackdmp can handle *any* number of cores. What jackdmp does in
> changing the jack clients scheduling model from a purely sequential
> one to a "data-flow" like one: as soon a jack clients become
> runnable, they are activated by the OS which is then responsible to
> run them on any available processor. A Jack client become runnable
> when all of it's input clients have been run, and this of course
> depends of the graph topology.
>
> Stephane
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