Those are exciting results!<br><br>Did you have to do any other configuration magic to get it working? I'm tempted to try a build for debian tonight.<br><br>Jon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Ken Restivo</b> <<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:00:24PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:<br>> On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:06, Ken Restivo wrote:<br>> > What's with this "tickless" timer option for the HPET? What is its effect
<br>> > on audio/RT performance? Is it worth trying?<br>> ><br>> > Does it do anything on an Ingo-patched RT kernel anyway?<br>> ><br>> > -ken<br>><br>> <a href="http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tickless_kernel">
http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tickless_kernel</a><br>><br>> Maybe it does some good though too, because generally the thoughput should<br>> increase because that little bit of code called the scheduler is not run
<br>> additionally every 1/250 or 1/1000 sec. If i understand that correctly.<br>><br><br>Wow, that's interesting. "Tickless" made a dramatic improvement in DSP usage! Instead of 65% at idle, it was more like 30%.
<br><br>However, I'm still getting lots of crackles, and possibly better than tickless, possibly worse, I can't tell.<br><br>- -ken<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQFFwUZ7e8HF+6xeOIcRAvnVAJ9VStiPkg34Sbz/fSkKqVbd25OhoACggzHf
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