Re: Call for testers - Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:23:26PM +1000, Nathanial Sloss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have made changes to audio that improve it's performance and I'd like these 
> changes to be in 8.1.
> 
> Please test and report back with any problems.  Please cc me as I am not 
> subscribed to the list.
> 
> The patch is also available at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/audio-intr-final-v3.diff
> 
> Summary of changes / improvements:
> 
> It removes the complication of kthreads and conditional variables by turning 
> the play/rec threads into softints.

Is it 2 softints per physical devices, or per virtual ?
The kernel has a limited number of softints, and it's not uncommon
to have 2 physical devices in a desktop (the HDMI one, and the "native"
one).

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