From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Amit Nagal <helloin.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: periods_max initialization in snd_usb_hardware
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:29:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEB5F31.8040809@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+F9FsDoX=X14qpzgoH+Fm8oEq8f36fwa02J1fQTD9eqbCnVSw@mail.gmail.com>
Amit Nagal wrote:
> snd_usb_hardware is defined in sound/usb/pcm.c as ...
> periods_max is intialized with value = 1024 .
>
> but going by buffer_bytes_max and period_bytes_min value defined above ,
> periods_max = ( buffer_bytes_max / period_bytes_min ) = 16384 .
>
> why this upper cap of 1024 is maintained for periods_max even though from
> calculation it comes as 16384 ?
The buffer is entirely handled by software; these limits are pretty much
arbitrary.
If there is a reason to change these limits, just send a patch. :)
Regards,
Clemens
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 5:54 periods_max initialization in snd_usb_hardware Amit Nagal
2012-06-27 19:29 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4FEB5F31.8040809@ladisch.de \
--to=clemens@ladisch.de \
--cc=alsa-devel@alsa-project.org \
--cc=helloin.amit@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.