Re: Call for testers - Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1

[Nathanial Sloss <nat%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:49:51 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:23:26PM +1000, Nathanial Sloss wrote:

> > 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).

Per device.  A total of four softints per device rec/play mixers and 
read/write wakup softints.

Best regards,

Nat