[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 00/11] A new srchannel based protocol for PulseAudio

[David Henningsson]

On 2014-04-30 07:35, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Am 29.04.2014 15:22, schrieb David Henningsson:
>> Okay, so second iteration. The patch is no longer a draft, and numbers
>> look good; Peter Meerwald has confirmed my numbers of 15 - 25% less
>> CPU in
>> low latency scenarios (right)?
>>
>> That said, I guess the patches could use more testing, e g corner
>> cases such
>> as what happens if either side suddenly dies, if the ringbuffer gets
>> full etc.
>>
>> Tech overview:
>>
>> The srchannel (Shared Ringbuffer Channel) is made up of two
>> ringbuffers in
>> shared memory. For signaling, we use pa_fdsem.
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not in the position for technical review but...I can't help it but I
> always read srcchannel and think it has to do with sources. Other
> newcomers might get confused too. Perhaps a less confusing short name
> can be found?

How about rbchannel (short for RingBufferChannel)?


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