On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 09:45:20PM +0900, Tetsuya Isaki wrote: > [*] On my alpha (500MHz), wss(4)/ISA works even on blk_ms=1. > But I was not able to set 1msec on yds(4) PCI sound card on > the same machine. Its lower limit was 5msec (due to driver's > or hardware's restriction, I don't know details though).
It sounds wrong to hold users hostage to the restrictions of some devices. Why does this have to be a constant anyway? It seems perfectly sensible to me that the final output device can provide a lower limit as well as having one derived from HZ and using whatever is higher. Joerg