Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] evo code

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

Es geschah am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2002 23:08 als Benno Senoner schrieb:
> > > This check can be moved within the disk thread which accesses the
> > > buffer with a much lower frequency and where it is easy to figure out
> > > when the last read reached the ring buffer end position.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're getting at. Do you mean that it's more likely
> > that read/write access to the buffer won't interfere/overlap, because the
> > audio thread reads faster than the disk buffer can fill up the space, due
> > to the higher priority of the audio thread?
>
> no, the disk thread "always writes faster than the audio thread reads",
> or in short: there will be always some data in the ring buffer as long
> as the disk is not overloaded (if that happens we must lower the max #
> of voices or user more powerful hardware ... it is not our fault).

Oh, I expressed myself wrong. Anyway, I think I got the idea.

Thanks!