On 10/9/06, Christopher Monty Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We will still run
> into rebudgeting problems int he case of XRUN though, and we will
> still run into the problem of an app running happily for several
> hours, having an inadvertant XRUN and suddenly throwing 'ENOSPC'.
> Throwing ENOSPC from a previously working ISO is an abuse of the user.
>
> Any possibility of mere preemption causing an EPIPE in a successfully
> opened ISO stream should give you chills.  We should be minimizing
> that possibility, not embracing it as par for the course.  I
> understand the current design is unlikely to change, but that doesn't
> mean we should just accept suboptimal use cases that will come up
> often.

Whoooops, redacted-- I forgot, again, that usbaudio can just pump out
dummy URBs if it sees fit.  My concerns are reduced to just latencies
wrt buffering.

Monty

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