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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] ALSA: compress: call pointer callback
 and updates under a lock
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:18:59 +0530
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:31:33PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:10:38 +0530,
> Vinod Koul wrote:
> > 
> > to prevent racy claculations as multiple threads can invoke and update values
> 
> Why a new lock?  Can't it be the same lock?
Pointer query and updates IMO should be independent of the trigger ops. I dont
see a reason why we should blcok pointers while we are pausing...

~Vinod