Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Jaroslav Kysela
2006-01-10T14:08:23Z

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Hannu Savolainen wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
>
> > Overloading interrupt handlers with extra things is evil (and I bet you're
> > mixing samples in the interrupt handler). Even the network stack uses
> > interrupts only for DMA management and not for any extra operations.
> You mean it's evil because nobody else is doing it? Then it must be
> evil or rather voodoo.

No, I mean that it's quite obvious bad design, because you might increase
interrupt latencies for other drivers.

Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs