[LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 19.06.09 20:32, Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net) wrote:

>
> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> So what does RealtimeKit do that previous solutions didn't do? rtkit
>> relies on a new kernel feature SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK that got recently
>> merged into Ingo's tree and will hence shortly appear in 2.6.31.
>
> Is it proved not to negative affect MIDI jitter? It seems to be an up  
> and down with kernel versions. Audio always seems to be fine, while MIDI  
> jitter increases or decreases randomly from version to version. It  
> should been proved that it won't have unwanted effects, before it's  
> included to the rt patch's tree. I'm a user only, it's not an  
> assumption, just a question.

This should have no such impact. The flag is only checked for on
fork(), i.e. almost never.

Lennart

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