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
This commit is contained in:
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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@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
#include "config.h"
#include "Thread.hxx"
#include "thread/Name.hxx"
#include "thread/Util.hxx"
#include "Log.hxx"
void
EventThread::Start()
@@ -41,7 +43,16 @@ EventThread::Stop() noexcept
void
EventThread::Run() noexcept
{
SetThreadName("io");
SetThreadName(realtime ? "rtio" : "io");
if (realtime) {
try {
SetThreadRealtime();
} catch (...) {
LogError(std::current_exception(),
"RTIOThread could not get realtime scheduling, continuing anyway");
}
}
event_loop.Run();
}