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* audio: wake up the core when audio buffer is running low (2)wm42014-04-151-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Same change as in e2184fcb, but this time for pull based AOs. This is slightly controversial, because it will make a fast syscall from e.g. ao_jack. And according to JackAudio developers, syscalls are evil and will destroy realtime operation. But I don't think this is an issue at all. Still avoid locking a mutex. I'm not sure what jackaudio does in the worst case - but if they set the jackaudio thread (and only this thread) to realtime, we might run into deadlock situations due to priority inversion and such. I'm not quite sure whether this can happen, but I'll readily follow the cargo cult if it makes hack happy.
* audio/out: make draining a separate operationwm42014-03-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Until now, this was always conflated with uninit. This was ugly, and also many AOs emulated this manually (or just ignored it). Make draining an explicit operation, so AOs which support it can provide it, and for all others generic code will emulate it. For ao_wasapi, we keep it simple and basically disable the internal draining implementation (maybe it should be restored later). Tested on Linux only.
* audio/out: feed AOs from a separate threadwm42014-03-091-0/+219
This has 2 goals: - Ensure that AOs have always enough data, even if the device buffers are very small. - Reduce complexity in some AOs, which do their own buffering. One disadvantage is that performance is slightly reduced due to more copying. Implementation-wise, we don't change ao.c much, and instead "redirect" the driver's callback to an API wrapper in push.c. Additionally, we add code for dealing with AOs that have a pull API. These AOs usually do their own buffering (jack, coreaudio, portaudio), and adding a thread is basically a waste. The code in pull.c manages a ringbuffer, and allows callback-based AOs to read data directly.