Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>]

Is this legal (ie. non-blocking)?

int process (jack_nframes_t nframes, void *arg){
  snd_seq_event_t *event;
  if(snd_seq_event_input_pending(seq,1)){
    snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);
  ....
}





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Re: Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Alfons Adriaensen]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:36:40PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:
 
> Is this legal (ie. non-blocking)?
> 
> int process (jack_nframes_t nframes, void *arg){
>   snd_seq_event_t *event;
>   if(snd_seq_event_input_pending(seq,1)){
>     snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);


Don't have the sources at hand here, but ISTR that
what I do in Aeolus is something like:


  if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1))
  {
      do 
      { 
          snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);
          ...
      }
      while (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,0));
  }


It has never blocked AFAICT. It may not be the best
method if you use very short periods - a separate
MIDI thread linked with a lock-free ringbuffer is to
be preferred in that case.


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Re: [Jackit-devel] Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>]

> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:36:40PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
> <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:
>
>> Is this legal (ie. non-blocking)?
>>
>> int process (jack_nframes_t nframes, void *arg){
>>   snd_seq_event_t *event;
>>   if(snd_seq_event_input_pending(seq,1)){
>>     snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);
>
>
> Don't have the sources at hand here, but ISTR that
> what I do in Aeolus is something like:
>
>
>   if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1))
>   {
>       do
>       {
>           snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);
>           ...
>       }
>       while (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,0));
>   }
>
>

Thanks, reading your source, thats correct. (But I don't understand what
the fetch_sequencer argument for snd_seq_event_input_pending does though:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___seq_event.html#a7
)

I also wonder whats the difference between your code above and this:

if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1)) {
  while(snd_seq_event_input(seq,&event);
      ....
   }
}

which I think should do the same... Guess I just have to read the source. :-)





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Re: Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Clemens Ladisch]

Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:
> Is this legal (ie. non-blocking)?
>
> int process (jack_nframes_t nframes, void *arg){
>   snd_seq_event_t *event;
>   if(snd_seq_event_input_pending(seq,1)){
>     snd_seq_event_input(seq, &event);
>   ....
> }

snd_seq_event_input_pending() will not block (it may call poll(), but
with a timeout of zero), and snd_seq_event_input() will not block if
snd_seq_event_input_pending() has returned a value greater than zero.


HTH
Clemens



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Re: [Jackit-devel] Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Alfons Adriaensen]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:

> Thanks, reading your source, thats correct. (But I don't understand what
> the fetch_sequencer argument for snd_seq_event_input_pending does though:
> 

IIRC, if the second argument of snd_seq_event_input_pending () is
1, it will do a transfer of all available MIDI data from a system
space buffer to user space. If it is zero, it examines only the user
space buffer.

> I also wonder whats the difference between your code above and this:
> 
> if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1)) {
>   while(snd_seq_event_input(seq,&event);
>       ....
>    }
> }

The code as in Aeolus will do one system to user space transfer only,
while if you put your code into a loop, it will do this every time.
The rationale for doing it only once is that 
1. it's a system call, and probably relatively expensive,
2. in the short time required to handle the MIDI events arrived 
during the past period, it is unlikely that anything new will
arrive anyway.

Point 1. is why you'd probably prefer a separate thread if your
period size could be very small (64, 32, 16). The minimum for
Aeolus is 64 anyway, so I didn't bother. This will change in the
next release, which will handle OSC as well.


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Re: Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>]

> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
> <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, reading your source, thats correct. (But I don't understand what
>> the fetch_sequencer argument for snd_seq_event_input_pending does
>> though:
>>
>
> IIRC, if the second argument of snd_seq_event_input_pending () is
> 1, it will do a transfer of all available MIDI data from a system
> space buffer to user space. If it is zero, it examines only the user
> space buffer.
>
>> I also wonder whats the difference between your code above and this:
>>
>> if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1)) {
>>   while(snd_seq_event_input(seq,&event);
>>       ....
>>    }
>> }
>
> The code as in Aeolus will do one system to user space transfer only,
> while if you put your code into a loop, it will do this every time.
> The rationale for doing it only once is that
> 1. it's a system call, and probably relatively expensive,
> 2. in the short time required to handle the MIDI events arrived
> during the past period, it is unlikely that anything new will
> arrive anyway.
>
> Point 1. is why you'd probably prefer a separate thread if your
> period size could be very small (64, 32, 16). The minimum for
> Aeolus is 64 anyway, so I didn't bother. This will change in the
> next release, which will handle OSC as well.
>
>

Clemens Ladisch:
>snd_seq_event_input_pending() will not block (it may call poll(), but
>with a timeout of zero), and snd_seq_event_input() will not block if
>snd_seq_event_input_pending() has returned a value greater than zero.



Thank you both for the clear and understandable expanations. Everything is
understood. Back to coding. :-)






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Re: [Jackit-devel] Reading alsa midi-data inside the jack client process thread

[fons adriaensen]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:

> if (snd_seq_event_input_pending (seq,1)) {
>   while(snd_seq_event_input(seq,&event);
> 
> which I think should do the same... Guess I just have to read the source. :-)

OOPS, I didn't see the 'while' when commenting on this.
AFAICT it will do the same as my code, if you set the seq
to non-blocking mode. 

Happy coding !

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