On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:31 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:54:53 +0100 > "Ralf Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Suppose a jack thread is running and your midiin device irq comes in but not > > through, > > because the device's irq thread has lower priority and does not get > > scheduled! > > This is an interesting question: How is midi activity on physical ports > handled? Is it polled? Or is the soundcard IRQ used for this, too? In > the latter case the soundcard IRQ should definetly have a higher prio > than all jack stuff.
The relative priorities of the JACK and soundcard IRQs really don't matter because they never contend - one is woken up by the other. Lee
