Re: [linux-audio-dev] futex vs lock-free

2004-08-28 Thread Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins wrote: During collisions there is a busy retry loop, but 1) everything else trying to access the protected structure during the collision is also in a busy retry loop and 2) any of them can succeed, at any time, by making it once through the loop without something else hitting the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Firewire Breakout-Boxes

2004-08-28 Thread David Olofson
On Friday 27 August 2004 23.48, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:06, David Olofson wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 21.08, Dan Hollis wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Lee Revell wrote: Why do we need to /dev/null messages from nonsubscribers then? because its 100% effective