output/alsa: use a new I/O thread with real-time scheduling

The normal I/O event thread can have a large latency, e.g. when
libgnutls loads all TLS CA certificates for a https connect.  This
makes it unreliable for the ALSA I/O notifications, and causes ring
buffer xruns.  To avoid interfering with high latency events such as
CURL's, we move the ALSA I/O events to a separate I/O thread which
also obtains real-time scheduling (if possible).

Closes #221
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Max Kellermann
2018-02-16 22:38:55 +01:00
parent 61f2ce67dd
commit d29d186d62
5 changed files with 33 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -76,8 +76,19 @@ struct Instance final
, public RemoteTagCacheHandler
#endif
{
/**
* A thread running an #EventLoop for non-blocking (bulk) I/O.
*/
EventThread io_thread;
/**
* Another thread running an #EventLoop for non-blocking
* (real-time) I/O. This is used instead of #io_thread for
* events which require low latency, e.g. for filling hardware
* ring buffers.
*/
EventThread rtio_thread;
MaskMonitor idle_monitor;
#ifdef ENABLE_NEIGHBOR_PLUGINS