From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7Ozn-00036s-7f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:30:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7Ozf-0001wE-4e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:30:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:30291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S7Oze-0001w2-TG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:30:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4F5F227E.2030506@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:33:34 +0100 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1331578211-18232-1-git-send-email-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> <4F5F1F30.2020101@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F5F1F30.2020101@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] apply volume on client side (v3) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: dnb@redhat.com, dlaor@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9_Lureau?= , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9_Lureau?= Am 13.03.2012 11:19, schrieb Gerd Hoffmann: > Hi, > >>> I do to, except when they fix broken behaviour. More seriously, do you >>> have other concerns with the mixemu code? >> >> Sure - it adds overhead. > > The point of this patchset is to kill the overhead if possible, i.e. try > to pass down the volume the guest asked for all the way down to the > hosts's audio hardware. > > This patchset starts with spice and pulse, adding support to other audio > backends (oss, alsa, windows, ...) shouldn't be hard, mixemu shouldn't > be used in the common case then. Then the default should probably to use it at least if the backend support passing it through? Leaving it broken by default wouldn't be very nice. Kevin