On Fri, 13 May 2016 14:26:59 +0200, Ricard Wanderlof wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 May 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Yeah, that's why I stated the primary question. The atomic operation > > there is mostly cosmetic, not really helpful. In the whole other > > operation, we don't guarantee the thread safety at all. So, > > implementing the atomic op only in a very small part of the whole code > > appears like a superfluous optimization to me. > > The question is, if we decide to remove this atomic stuff, how do we > verify that it actually causes no problems, on all architectures, etc? It's not what one can show in 100%, as you know. And, it's the reason why the code is still left over years... IMO, we just need to make a clear statement about the thread safety of alsa-lib. For a single threaded op, it can't give any regression, of course. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
