[linux-audio-user] dipping toes in 2.6 waters

[Florin Andrei]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 22:24, Lee Revell wrote:

> As Ingo's patches stabilize, it is very important for more people to
> test them.  With 2.6.8+voluntary-preempt-O3, using voluntary_preempt=3,
> kernel_preemption=1, and the soundcard and RTC irqs non-threaded, it
> works for me (tm) - I have been unable to produce a latency over 50
> usecs, even while punishing the machine with parallel builds and iozone
> -a.
> 
> We need people to test with different hardware configurations and
> workloads.  Especially needed are testers with ACPI, APIC, SMP, HT
> machines.  There are still some ACPI related bugs, more testers are
> needed to nail these down.  There are some reports of lockups which I
> cannot reproduce.

Lee, thanks for the summary. I'll definitely give it a spin and report
any problems to LKML.

Anyone knows whether mingo at redhat is taking a vacation or something? The
voluntary-preempt patch is for 2.6.8-rc2, and it's been several days now
since rc3 is out. In fact his rc2 patch has the same date as the
official rc3 kernel. :-/

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/