Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: Strings and Raw Data Controls
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 17:21:22 EET
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:10:42PM +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> Yes, and that's one of the few cases where the host is marshalling
> events. (It has to, because the event system in itself isn't thread
> safe.) The host can either use an RT memory manager, or just restrict
> things to one string/data block per engine cycle.
That sounds reasonable.
> There is a feature for allocating audio buffers from the host.
> Problem is that they're not of a hardcoded size, and they're
> generally rather small; at most a few hundred bytes for low latency
> hosts.
I can think of situations where you might want a few kB, eg. FFT plugins.
- Steve
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