[linux-audio-dev] lowlatency test at linuxdevices

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Thu Sep 18 08:14:00 UTC 2003


>http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7751365763.html

Nice article.

I hope this is not true:

"Embedded systems often need to poll hardware or do other tasks on a
fixed schedule. POSIX timers make it easy to arrange any task to get
scheduled periodically. The clock that the timer uses can be set to
tick at a rate a fine as one kilohertz, so that software engineers can
control the scheduling of tasks with precision."

The promise of the high-res timer patch was usec resolution, not msec.
This would be a great loss. Does anybody know any more?

--p




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