[LAD] [LAU] Ubuntu Studio 8.10, -rt and 2.6.27

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Sep 1 20:39:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 23:29 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 16:00 -0400, Cory K. wrote:
> > > BTW: what is so extremely important in .27? new hardwaresupport not
> > > achievable with .26?
> > 
> > Much better suspend/resume support along with many bug-fixes and device
> > support.
> 
> As well as the BKL pushdown (Big Kernel Lock)
> 
>  http://kerneltrap.org/BKL
> 
> 
> Some latency benchmarking - when they eventually are done merging -
> would be in place, so we would know what or if there is a real problem? 
> 
> IMO, 10 - 30us latency is fantastic, but perhaps a little over the top
> for audio work.

at 96 to 192kHz SR, not really. 16 samples at 192kHz is about 8usecs.





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