4 Aug
2009
4 Aug
'09
8:50 p.m.
Thanks to my neighbor a few hours north, Brent for the confirmation. Was not aware of any
"quota" on questions and did not mean to monopolize anything, just trying to
learn some things here. Apologies if error was made.
Thanks to Brent's assist, am now aware that those are IRQ statements, but still
uncertain where to plug those in. Guess will keep googling in search of answers.
Paul
--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Brent Busby <brent(a)keycorner.org> wrote:
From: Brent Busby <brent(a)keycorner.org>
Subject: Re: [LAU] resubmitting questions from last week
To: "Linux Audio User" <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>rg>, "Paul
Neaveill" <boycotthell2005(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 1:35 PM
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Paul Neaveill wrote:
Sorry if someone responded and we missed it, but
despite much googling and all of that, am still working on getting my own kernel(s) [2
machines] going with the following as had been suggested last week:
preempt_RCU
No_Hz
HZ_1000
and the other Rock-solid low-latency audio tweaks
99 ff migration
99 ff posixcputmr
98 ff IRQ-8 (real-time clock)
97 ff audio IRQ
80 rr Jack
Found the preempt_RCU and HZ_1000 spots in the debian/ubuntu kernel hack, still looking
for the rest please.?
** Would really appreciate the assistance with figuring out where/how to put those.
I never did get an answer to some of those questions either, so I figured maybe I'd
been asking too many. (I have been posting a lot of them lately.)
I think the ones you've got at the top for kernel options should be safe. I'm
going to try -- at least initially -- not adjusting any IRQ priorities though. It might
work, considering I've got a fast machine, and from what I hear, there are even people
getting away with ordinary non-RT kernels these days.
Preempt RCU was supposed to be buggy for awhile, but tested now for two years...
(Source: LKML)
Somebody said NO_HZ was actually a good thing on a laptop being used for pro-audio, and I
suppose if you can do well on a laptop you can do well anywhere... (Source: Some guy
with a laptop.)
And HZ_1000 is recommended almost everywhere.
I don't know what the meaning of NO_HZ and HZ_1000 is together, but I guess it'd
mean a jiffy rate of 1000Hz, but only when interrupts are needed?
I'm just putting stuff together from lots of googling too...
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