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How to integrate the GSL engine into artsd?
Open issues:
- adapting the driver model
- adapting main loop callbacks
- adapting the start()/stop() semantics
- multi streams
- midi/audio timing
- synchronization
- threadsafe module api
- how to live without the threading layer
[*] adapting main loop callbacks
the engine uses a three-state mainloop callback, which consists of
1. prepare
2. check
3. dispatch
with the following rules applying
1. you always need to prepare, to obtain pollfds
2. you check to see whether something needs to be done
3. you dispatch to make the engine do something
which will need to be treated in aRts as two state strategy, which is:
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INIT:
prepare -> register fds with the IOManager
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ON NOTIFY:
unregister fds with the IOManager
reselect all fds
check -> check if engine needs work
dispatch -> make engine do something
prepare -> reregister fds with the IOManager
as temporary measure, we could eventually build an imaginary fd into the
engine, which could be used for triggering calculations manually - we might
also take the real fd, on the other hand, which would only lead to the
IOManager sending out two notifications, which is not too critical
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problem:
iomanager reentrancy - the engine probably needs to be partially reentrant,
if we are to expect that a synchronous destruction of a module (such as in
a remote unref) transactionsynchronizes itself with the engine - but if we
expect this, then we will need to register some fds reentrant with the engine
well - we could - for a start - try to NOT reselect all fds to get a snapshot
of the whole world in one piece - but try to 1:1 map iomanager callbacks to
revents - this might or might not work
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