[LAU] reducing xruns (System configuration)

[David Kastrup]

"Chris Caudle" <chris at chriscaudle.org> writes:

> On Fri, July 20, 2018 3:52 am, david wrote:
>> And I figured out where to put pti=off on my various GRUB lines, so now
>> it boots with it off. And my desktop latency is back to 10msecs. :)
>
> That is good to know. And depressing, one more thing to add to the
> latency performance checklist. Set RT permissions, add user to audio
> group, etc.  ...oh, and one last thing, you need to decide whether you
> want better performance or want to protect against malicious software
> reading you kernel memory.  You do have separate dedicated computers
> for audio and banking, right? And a third for general web use?  Just
> make sure you banking and web browsing computers leave PTI enabled,
> it's probably OK to disable it on your dedicated audio computer since
> you don't connect it to the Internet.

AMD could probably make a killing by putting out old processors with
Sandy/Ivy bridge compatible behavior.  Pity that likely the most
incurable incompatibility would be the BIOS for the integrated GPU
(which is already blocking upgrades of Thinkpad T420 and their ilk to
Ivy bridge).

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David Kastrup