[OT] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux 2.6 not a latency panacea?

[Robert Jonsson]

Hi,

> > I also found 2.6.0-test[123] to be less responsive than 2.4.x-ll, or even
> > stock 2.4.x. I've also experienced XMMS dropouts under load (for example
> > compiling Muse)
> >
> > Some behaviour I've noticed is that under heavy load the desktop/audio
> > doesn't freeze for a certain block of time, but rather in short (~2
> > seconds) intervalls...
>
> this should have been imporved significantly in -mm tree.
> even reducing the min/max timeslices would help a lot.  the default
> values look too large for desktop users...

A fairly of topic question: Since 2.6 contains several schedulers; is this 
selectable at runtime or is it a compiletime switch ?
Sounds shaky to select at runtime, but infinitely cool :)

/Robert