(Audio) WorkGroup in CoreAudio server plugin

Hi,

we have multiple threads in our CoreAudio server plugin carrying out necessary asynchronous work (namely handling USB callbacks and shuffling the required data to the IO).

Although these threads have been set up with the appropriate THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY (which actually improves it) - on M* processors there is an extremely high, non-realtime amount of jitter of >10ms(!)

Now either the runloop notification from the USB stack comes that late or the thread driving the runloop hasn't been set up to correctly handling the callbacks in a timely manner.

Since AudioUnits threads requiring to comply to the frame deadlines can join the workgroup of the audio device is there a similar opportunity for the CoreAudio server plugin threads? And if so, how should these correctly be set up?

Thanks for any hints! Or pointing me to the docs :)

(Audio) WorkGroup in CoreAudio server plugin
 
 
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