On 23 October 2014 22:46, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote: > 22.10.2014 22:21, I wrote: >> >> Of course, this only applies to ALSA devices that can't use tsched, as >> well as to OSS on more exotic platforms. >> >> This is needed for compatibility with Wine games that use DirectSound8 >> on distributions such as Arch Linux who don't accept the unofficial >> winepulse patch. The reason is that Wine DirectSound8 emulation requests >> a period of 10 ms and expects it to work for the purposes of timing. And >> in fact, it cannot know (via ALSA API) that it is not going to work! > > > I hereby withdraw the patch, as on IRC I see that Arun said: > > """ > I'm not too happy with changing that. It would affect CPU on systems that > don't care about Wine. > and I really really don't want to work around bad clients in PA. (despite > the fact that I am also bitten by this bug) > ... > Want to start a BrokenClients page? > """ > > (note: due to the "cannot know" reason, I still disagree that it is a > client-side problem) I've not looked at the Wine code for this, but I wonder if we can guess this by looking at the minreq/tlength values that are returned. -- Arun
