[linux-audio-user] Kernel tweaking for low latency

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 08:47, Joe Hartley wrote:
>>So my advice for a Linux audio workstation?  Check out the audio distros
>>mentioned above, pick one, and configure the system from the ground up
>>around it.  Just itching to try the latest 2.6 kernel patches?  Great!
>>I'm really glad people want to blaze that trail!  But it's best done on
>>a machine other than the one you want to do recording on this weekend,
>>or at the very least in another partition that won't affect your working
>>environment.  And then check out the websites for optimizing IRQs and
>>hard drives and turning off CD polling and every other trick compiled
>>for setting up a Linux audio workstation.
> If you can, it might be better to wait for binaries of the new 2.6 low
> latency kernel.  All of the stability issues seem to be solved.  The
> last major issue was getting it working on x86-64 which seems to also be
> resolved; it has been stable for a week or two on ia32 UP and SMP as
> well as PPC.  The only a things that are still being worked out AFAICT
> are things like the init scripts to activate the low latency features.
> I would expect binary kernel packages for your favorite distro to be
> available any day now, if they aren't already.

So does mean the stock kernel.org 2.6.9 kernel will include these 
patches? or that there is now (or will soon be) a standard patch? I see 
now that Ingo relased an -R6 patch yesterday and -R7 and -R8 today, not 
3 hours apart.

-Eric Rz.