[linux-audio-user] Re: Recent LKML discussion on preempt/latency in 2.6 kernels

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 05:17:46PM -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 06:13, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> > Has anyone tried audio work with 2.6 and preempt *off*?
> 
> I just did and it does make a significant different in my tests (I have
> not tested yet compiling performance). Here are some results.
[snip]

Oh wow.  Very interesting - it appears that my performance problems are
almost certainly due to something else.  It seems evident to me that
preempt does in general make the situation better in 2.6, though Andrea and
others have argued it's not the best approach.  I'm loading the DRI
modules - I'll have to try again without those. (well, once my network
card starts working in 2.6 again)

I'll try some without preemption (compiled a kernel for it last night),
but it looks like I'm barking up the wrong tree.


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