[LAU] -ck patch

[Raffaele Morelli]

2010/12/13 Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org>

> On 12/13/2010 01:13 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> > 2010/12/13 Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi you all,
> >>
> >> what do you think about that? Have you got some personal experience?
> >> http://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2010/10/bfs-in-real-time.html
>
> yes. In short: Desktop performance: amazing, Desktop-audio-performance:
> good, pro-audio performance: deficient.
>
> > This quote:
> >
> > "If you were doing semi-professional audio recording you might, and
> > then you'd need to understand the inner workings of the software and
> > the -rt patchset to make the most of it. Just patching it in and
> > expecting it to work for you will not really give you any advantage."
> >
> > is not really true. It is true that there are quite a few complexities
> > to using the RT patchset's full capabilities. Most people probably do
> > not use them. But this doesn't mean that a general claim that the
> > patchset offers them no benefits is wrong.
>

I really hoped that :)
I am now sure that RT patchset is something for kernel folks to deal with,
but neverthless that it's something good to apply for me.



> quite, but it is true in the sense that it is much easier to screw up a
> kernel by blindly applying patches and generating a .config if you don't
> know what you're doing (and sometimes even if you know what you're
> doing). Also, one needs additional tools (like rtirq) to make good use
> of RT-linux, while -bfs runs OOTB.
> However these days most distributions do that setup for the users.
>

well, I always followed
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto and never
screwed up a kernel

 I don't care so much about speed. The important issue in pro-audio is
> reliability. It's not the smallest possible latency that counts, but the
> max. latency of the system.
>

I really did not understand this statement and anyway I would not agree...
why anybody should be safe knowing that his box max latency is 20ms instead
of 50ms or 70ms?

Regards

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