Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] audio/rfc: remove PLIVE and PERIOD options

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/13/12 16:47, malc wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Marc-Andr? Lureau wrote:
>>
>>> - period seems to be unused now
>
>> Period on the other hand is unused because i somehow missed the subtle
>> change of behavior in one of the patches made by, i think, Gerd.
>
> Uhm, which patch?  I think that wasn't intentional, at least I can't
> remember intentionally disabling period.  Maybe I missed the subtle
> change of behavior too.

Could be:

39deb1e496de81957167daebf5cf5d1fbd5e47c2

> I do see the point in having this configurable as this is a cpu overhead
> vs. latency tradeoff which one might want to tweak depending on the use
> case.

But that would impact a/v sync, or can you report added latency back
to the guest somehow? I imagine audio backend latency should depend on
the configured device buffering/latency, not on an environment tweak.

regards

-- 
Marc-André Lureau