On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 19:27, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> Ah, OK. yes, i suppose this might not be clear.
>
> when you set the size of a "period" in ALSA, you are basically setting
> the interval at which the h/w will interrupt the host system to notify
> it that space/data is available. so, if you set
>I think I know the source of Maarten's question. In the
>alsa-lib/test/latency.c the "readbuf" routine has the following code:
>
>do {
>r = snd_pcm_readi(handle, buf, len);
>} while (r == -EAGAIN);
>
>For the non-blocking case this would take up 100% of the CPU tim
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 08:55, Paul Davis wrote:
> >I don't think so, but I am probably completely missing the point.
> >Let's start all over. I have a patched kernel, and I want to have
> >low latency. I use latest alsa (cvs), and I run the latency test.
> >(As you might have noticed, I submitted a
