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Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> good either. However, its only going to get worse as things go on, and
> each card does DMA interrupts for each new fragment. These are always
> going to be serialised on any UP machine, and likely not well
> synchronized even on an SMP machine, and so things will slowly drift
> further and further out of sync.

Eh? The cards do not stop capturing or playing when there's an interrupt
pending, so serialising interrupt handlers doesn't change anything.

Tom

