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    [PATCH] maximum latency tracking: ALSA support · 9442e691
    Takashi Iwai authored
    
    
    Add maximum latency tracking to the ALSA subsystem for PCM playback.  In
    ALSA, the playback application controls the buffer size and thus indirectly
    the period of latency that it can deal with.  This patch uses 75% of the
    total available latency as threshold to announce to the latency subsystem;
    While 75% is a crude heuristic it's a quite reasonable one; the remaining
    25% can be used for all driver processing for the next samples which is
    also proportional to the size of the buffer.
    
    With ogg123 a latency setting of about 4msec was seen (at 44Khz), while
    with the "play" command a much longer maximum tolerable latency was seen.
    Other, more multimedia oriented players as well as games, will have a lot
    smaller buffers to allow better synchronization and those will actually get
    into the latency domains where there is impact on the power management
    rules.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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