[haiku-development] Re: Interesting thread priority assignments in media kit

  • From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 07:24:03 -0500

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Is it intentional that a bunch of the threads in the
>> media_addon_server are currently running at priority 120? I notice
>> this with other media kit related threads in apps such as media
>> player, is this an oversight or a workaround for the current thread
>> scheduler?
>
> IIRC, the media_addon_server also hosts the audio nodes, and the threads that 
> dispatch audio buffers to the hardware are definitely supposed to run at 
> realtime priority.

The ones I noticed were also things like the mixer...don't we also
have a B_MEDIA_PRIORITY or am I remembering wrong?

Regards,

Rene

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