Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Supporting various sample library formats

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:04:04 +0100, Matthias Weiss wrote:
> The situation of a context switch before the sampler finished its work
> for the given jack cycle depends whether linuxsampler runs in 
> SCHED_FIFO mode and if there is a higher priority process preempting the
> sampler process. This shouldn't happen within one jack graph, but it
> could happen if there are parallel jack graphs.

Its still a needless overhead.

> In both cases, if linuxsampler is in-process of a host app (let's say a
> sequencer) or if it's running in a seperate process there would be the
> same context switch to another client. So the only benefit would be that
> there is no process context switch between the host application and the
> sampler, but still a thread context switch. Steve, does the cache
> clearing also apply to thread switches?

I dont know if it applies to threads as well.

- Steve