[linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6

holborn holborn at telefonica.net
Thu Jul 24 13:10:01 UTC 2003


On Jueves, 24 de Julio de 2003 17:46, Michael Ost wrote:
> Is there SCHED_FIFO style priority available in the new kernel, with its
> new threading model? Realtime audio processing doesn't share the CPU
> very well. The ear can pick out even the slightest glitches or delays.
> So for Linux to be usable for audio applications or embedded audio
> devices it needs something like SCHED_FIFO.
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 06:03, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I haven't used kernel 2.5/2.6 for any audio stuff yet.  I'm at the Linux
> > Symposium this week - do we have any requests or gripes with 2.6 that I
> > can relay to the core kernel guys?  Audio is a workload they don't really
> > test.
> >
> > Tim

Hi!

p9:/home/holborn/gmorgan/src# uname -a
Linux p9 2.6.0-test1 #5 mié jul 23 10:40:31 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
p9:/home/holborn/gmorgan/src# ./gmorgan -l MisStyles.gms -b MisProgs.gmo -r 
MisPat.gmp
gmorgan v0.07 - Copyright (c) 2003 Josep Andreu (Holborn)
SCHED_FIFO
SCHED_FIFO

p9:/# ps wlaxO+y
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
4     0  9375  5689 -51   0 31884 31880 schedu SL  pts/1      0:01 ./gmorgan 
-l MisStyles.gms -b MisProgs.gmo -r MisPat.gmp
5     0  9377  9376 -51   0 31884 31880 snd_se SL  pts/1      0:00 ./gmorgan 
-l MisStyles.gms -b MisProgs.gmo -r MisPat.gmp

Here runs .... i think :)  debian sid.

Josep




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