Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] pulseaudio: process audio data in smaller chunks

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > Also, when making chunk size configurable we should not leave that
> > to the confused user but pick a working value automatically, probably
> > depending on the emulated device.  I can't see what the benefit would
> > be though, especially given that intel-hda is probably used in most
> > configurations these days.
> 
> For nowadays uses I agree with your patch.
> For retrocomputing and other weird stuffs, if we don't have this
> user-configurable, I think we need a comment in the code about this change,
> else it might be hard for other people to figure this change in the git
> history.

Again, why?  The pulse audio threads might wake up more often than
needed.  This should have no negative effect on the functionality of
the emulated sound cards though.  Worst case is we need a few more cpu
cycles due to the higher wakeup rate (didn't measure that though).

cheers,
  Gerd