[PATCH] virtio-sound: add latency_bytes definition

This commit aims at providing a better definition of latency_bytes. To
do so, this commit defines latency_bytes as is defined in Crosvm.

Signed-off-by: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <>
---
 device-types/sound/description.tex | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/device-types/sound/description.tex b/device-types/sound/description.tex
index 54c9c8e..1349765 100644
--- a/device-types/sound/description.tex
+++ b/device-types/sound/description.tex
@@ -694,7 +694,10 @@ \subsubsection{PCM I/O Messages}\label{sec:Device Types / Sound Device / Device
 \begin{description}
 \item[\field{status}] contains VIRTIO_SND_S_OK if an operation is successful,
 and VIRTIO_SND_S_IO_ERR otherwise.
-\item[\field{latency_bytes}] indicates the current device latency.
+\item[\field{latency_bytes}] indicates the current device latency. For
+playback, this is the amount of bytes that must be consumed before
+the current request can be played. For capture, this is the latency in terms of
+bytes that the capture buffer was recorded.
 \end{description}
 
 Since all buffers in the queue (with one exception) should be of the size
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