On Saturday 07 December 2002 03.58, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
wrote:
Where are the
lowlat and preempt patches for 2.4.20?
Not on the net at this point. I have been hand tweaking the
originals to patch cleanly (trying to fix the failing chunks). I
can email them to you, use at your own risk :-)
I would be interested in trying your version of the patches. Please
mail! :-)
BTW, I applied the 2.4.19 LL patch to 2.4.20, and got a few rejects
in the file system area, which I have not investigated further.
(Seems to be a lot of changes around there...) Performance is "ok"
under X and proc stress, but I get countless latencies in the whole
range up to some 6-8 ms as soon as I start stressing the disk. (This
is *with* DMA enabled, of course.)
Haven't tried preempt yet.
As to freezing, I've only managed to do that once - and IIRC, that
was when trying to instantiate a synth in MusE while Ardour was
running in the background. No useful info about what actually
happened, and I haven't tested that combination any further.
Are you certain your freeze is actually happening in kernel space?
Tried using watchdog with "ping-pong" between highest and lowest
priority SCHED_FIFO threads? (BTW, we should have a watchdog anyway,
probably integrated with givertcap or something.)
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