> (please don't top-post) > Extremely sorry for that . will take care reagarding this from now on . > If, when read() is called, there is enough data in the buffer, it will > return that data and return immediately. Otherwise, it will wait for > the hardware to reach the next period boundary (in OSS: fragment > boundary) and try again. > > If you want to have shorter waits, use lower fragment sizes. yes , setting of lower fragment size is my requirement at the moment in OSS application . i tried to use SNDCTL_DSP_SETFRAGMENT ioctl to set lower fragment size . but audio driver uses default fragment size only and not the fragment size desired by application . Is it possible to change fragment size in kernel space ? Thanx & Regards Amit Nagal _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel