[linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Andrew Morton akpm at osdl.org
Tue Jul 13 00:46:39 UTC 2004


Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> > resierfs: yes, it's a problem.  I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the
>  > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up.
>  > 
> 
>  Interesting.  There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio
>  folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work.

It seems to be misplaced.  A simple make-a-zillion-teeny-files test here
exhibits a 14 millisecond holdoff.

>  Should I try ext3?

ext3 is certainly better than that, but still has a couple of potential
problem spots.  ext2 is probably the best at this time.




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