On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:58 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > > >From an implementation perspective doing this would be highly > painful, > > but could possibly make the api user's life easier. But then if we > were > > to do that we may need no dataconf_handle_t type at all since there > is > > only one dispatch function. > > I think we're circling around the same thing. But it begs > another question. I was assuming a global handle because having a > handle-per-track leads to 100s of file descriptors. And now we're > actually approaching places where efficiency is a problem. 100s or > 1000s of file descriptors take kernel memory, especially if they have > IPC buffers associated with them. > > Joel > > --
by painful i don't mean impossible or incompatible with the current infrastructure. :) regards -steve _______________________________________________ Openais mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/openais
