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From: Pierre Ossman <ossman@cendio.se>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Transparent network support through
 polypaudio
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:48:56 +0100
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To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Pierre Ossman wrote:
> 
>>Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>
>>>I think you may be required to use a timer for the mainloop.  What does
>>>polypaudio actually do in this callback?  How often must it be called?
>>
>>Primarily updates to available buffer space on the server.
> 
> 
> Shouldn't the data be sent as early as possible, i.e., directly after
> the snd_pcm_write() or snd_mmap_commit()?
> 

I believe it does. What I meant was that the server reports back as it 
consumes the buffer in the other end. That allows us to check available 
space without a round trip to the server.

Rgds
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