Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: desktop and multimedia as an afterthought?
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 18:06:30 EEST
>control may be modifying it. Such access is restricted using functions that
>synchronize thread execution and also synchronize memory with respect to
>other threads."
>
>Thus, the lock-free ringbuffer is not portable. (What if the reader gets an
>"old" value that is never updated?)
the kernel *requires* atomic operations to at least the same extent that audio
apps do. if you can run linux on a h/w platform, then the required
atomic ops are available.
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