thoughts on smp
Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:06:08 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api |
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Hi folks, does anyone know how SMP exactly works ? If really wanna benefit from SMP, we IMHO need MT, so the kernel has multiple tasks it can put on several CPUs. Now's the big question: how should the process be splitt off best ? Running audio and video in (real) parallel is perhaps not the best solution, since video requires much more power than audio. So perhaps we should split timewards instead of streamwards, in other words: several frames are decoded/rendered at the same time. We also agreed that we wanna have point of MT out of the media-api, so what interface should we provide to the application that this can work ? ... just a few latenight thoughts ... cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT services phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [email protected] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- DSL-Zugang ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- DSL-Flatfrate -- Diese Mail wurde mit UUCP versandt. http://www.metux.de/uucp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------