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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] pulseaudio: process audio data in
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On 12/11/18 10:12, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:36:39PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Hi Gerd,
>>
>> On 11/9/18 3:20 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> The rate of pulseaudio absorbing the audio stream is used to control the
>>> the rate of the guests audio stream.  When the emulated hardware uses
>>> small chunks (like intel-hda does) we need small chunks on the audio
>>> backend side too, otherwise that feedback loop doesn't work very well.
>>
>> Shouldn't this be user-configurable?
> 
> Why?

When emulated hardware is not intel-hda?