In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I meant that the central requirement on the design and implementation of > audio subsystems is an (ideally guaranteed) bounded maximum of > latencies; and that's exactly the major point where I heard that there > are problems with ALSA driver components in userspace. You were talking > about throughput of storage systems, for which latencies of the software > part of the stack do not play such a central role. Therefore your > comparison appeared off the mark to me.
Unfortunatelle Latency is critical for a number of critical applications like databases or file based transaction systems (mail, news) - mainly the users of fsync(). Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
