Thanks a lot James Regards; Aadish On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:43 AM, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 23 June 2010 21:26, Adish Kuvelker <adkuvi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> yes...I know that my hardware will generate the interrupt and it will >> be at FIFO being half empty. >> > > In that case the full buffer is 64, but you have the following parameters: > .period_bytes_min = 4, > .period_bytes_max = 32, > .periods_min = 2, > .periods_max = 2 > > A period is how far through the buffer one goes until an interrupt happens. > So, if the interrupt happens one each half FIFO, one has two periods per buffer. > > Kind Regards > > James > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel