Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [Jackit-devel] [Fwd: Re: Linux audio latency]
From: Sampo Savolainen (v2_AT_iki.fi)
Date: Mon Oct 04 2004 - 20:17:22 EEST
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:29, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:55:18 +0300
> Sampo Savolainen <v2_AT_iki.fi> wrote:
> > Actually, that's not entirely correct. I've been talking to Paul about
> > this. The xruns created by exiting clients is due to jackd having to
> > rework it's internals. When doing this reordering, jackd has to lock
> > the data it's modifying and sometimes (very often) there will be an
> > xrun because the audio thread is waiting for the lock to be released.
> >
>
> Ah, and btw: Shouldn't the audio thread just try the lock and if it
> fails to claim it produce a period of silence? What spot in the code is
> this?
I don't know jacks internals myself. What I posted the other day was
simply something that I gathered from discussing the issue of xruns
when clients disconnected.
The jack development people will know more about this issue.
Sampo
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