Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] snd: Add virtio sound device specification

[Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 17:05 +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> > This would be a good improvement, it's less copying and would
> > likely
> > improve user experience, however the buffer ptr still suffers
> > latency
> > as it's queued (same for stream positions going the other way).
> 
> Right if the queuing overhead is still too large, then I don't think
> the
> current virtqueues can be used.

They can be used for non low latency audio, I don't see any issues if
latency is not important. e.g. media playback, some gaming, most system
notifications.

Liam