Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: HZ > 100 overhead

[Benno Senoner]

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> 
> take a system in which, say, Quasimodo was running through the server
> or was the server and SoftWerk ran along side it. SoftWerk doesn't
> talk to the audio h/w at all, but it wants timing from the RTC. the
> server might want timing from the RTC. a 3rd program runs and wants to
> to use the RTC for something completely non-audio related.
> 
> in these kinds of situations, you don't want to have merged RTC
> service into an "multimedia server" - someone who wants to use the RTC
> for something completely different is going to be unhappy at being
> forced to connect to the multimedia server if the server is running
> (and thus owns the RTC).


> 
> that's why I think that the RTC *must* be considered a standalone
> system utilized either by a single (greedy) application, or by a
> server *that does nothing else* but distribute timing info to clients.

You convinced me  :-) 
Agreed, rtcd will run as standalone app and 
the multimedia API will provide a timerwrapper which connects
to rtcd if requested , ok ?

Benno.