30 Dec
2005
30 Dec
'05
11:39 a.m.
The biggest advantage of course is not having to run
an RT MIDI timing thread. My impression is that this
aspect of MusE (which does that, I think) causes
as many configuration problems for its users as using
ALSA sequencer queue timers does for Rosegarden's.
Any more thoughts on this?
several people have wanted JACK to export a thread create call that
would take care of the RT-ness. that way, if you can run JACK with RT
scheduling, you can run a MIDI thread too, with no extra steps. it would
also be useful for people doing FFT in JACK clients using a separate
thread.
i don't agree with florian that the MIDI thread should run with higher
priority than the JACK watchdog, btw. i think the watchdog should be
higher than anything else until such a time as the kernel guarantees
"watchdog" functionality itself.
--p