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SubjectRe: Sound userspace drivers (fishing for insight)
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Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, John Richard Moser wrote:
>
>> In general, transporting sound data in and out of kernel space is a
>> horrid thought. Consider the latencies, which all real-time audio
>> people will quickly get angry about. Write sound; context switch; sound
>> in driver; context switch back. This over and over? Now we all know
>> better than that.
>
> Nope. If you have a cache coherent architecture like x86, ALSA mmaps
> directly the DMA buffer to application and even pointers to this buffer
> are mmaped, thus there is no content switch when apps are doing r/w and
> there is "zero data copy". The only contents switch is when apps call
> poll(), but you should do it, otherwise you'll eat all cpu time.
>

Awesome. Nice design :) I hath learned today and I woke up 10 minutes
ago.

>> into the kernel; with alsa it's written to a /proc interface, which
>
> Using /proc? Where? I've not noticed it :-)

I thought that was what /proc/asound/card0/ was for? :)
>
> Jaroslav
>
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> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
> ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
>

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