Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: mutex madness
From: David Olofson (audiality_AT_swipnet.se)
Date: to syys 30 1999 - 17:01:13 EDT
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Eli Brandt wrote:
> I haven't been able to keep up with the plug-in architecture
> discussion, so maybe this has already been brought up. What about
> sending events via lock-free queues?
I suggested that, using the standard RTLinux <-> Linux IPC solutions as an
example.
> One hassle is that they're single-reader/single-writer, which if
> people have been talking about many-to-many communication will be
> annoying (we're using them now for three-to-three -- only
> quadratically annoying). But one-to-many is what I'm imagining.
In an engine running callback plug-ins and a single thread for each sub net,
there's no need for explicit synchronisation at all. Synchronisation is only a
problem between sub nets and between the engine and client applications.
//David
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