[LAU] OT: what is happening with RT kernel development?

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:00:15 +0100, <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> Le 29-03-2013 17:55, Harry van Haaren a écrit :
>
>> jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:
>>> Are the low latency kernels just another term for real-time kernels ?
>> No they are different. For almost all use-cases the low-latency kernel
>> is enough, the RT kernels are oriented towards hard real-time
>> performance. The low latency kernel is capable of at least down to
>> 2ms.. that is probably low enough for your use case?
>
> Could be, I don't know. This is about recording one instrument at a time  
> in Ardour, basically.
>

As long as you are not doing software monitoring (i.e. listening to what  
you are recording through Ardour, while recording it), you don't need low  
latency at all, and might not need anything beyond linux-generic.

If you do software monitoring, linux-lowlatency may well be more than  
enough.