Wine 1.5.11 Kills Big X11 Lock, Brings Multi-Channel ALSA

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Originally Posted by curaga

I'm not at all familiar with Wine details, but here's how it usually is.

Big X11 lock:

Every time they call any X function, lock a mutex (or other scalable construct) so that only one thread can do those at a time.

Gone:

Replaced with a set of smaller locks, which scales better.

The same thing was done with the big kernel lock.

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Thanks for the clarification....BTW, in what Kernel version was that also solved ?

I'm curious about that...

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Originally Posted by AJSB

Thanks for the clarification....BTW, in what Kernel version was that also solved ?

I'm curious about that...

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2.6.37
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne...64d8546e8aefcb

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Originally Posted by e8hffff

I hope this multi channel ALSA driver doesn't mess up the recent Ubuntu PulseAudio version of Wine, as PulseAudio has been running fantastic.

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For now, I don't see any updates in Maarten Lankhorst Wine/Multimedia git tree, so I can assume that this patch-set is incompatible w/ 1.5.11.
Hopefully Maarten will re-base his PA patch-set on 1.5.11 soon.

- Gilboa