10 Nov
2009
10 Nov
'09
9:48 a.m.
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:33:54 +0100
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:00:54PM +0200, Fritz
Meissner wrote:
The default Arch Linux kernel is compiled with the highest
level of preemption the stock kernel can provide but it does not
include the preempt-rt patches.
Some other stuff isn't optimal as well from the Audio/Midi point of
view, but you're right, it already performs very well, well enough for
many uses.
Another interesting option some fellow Archers experiment with is using
the stock kernel with a different scheduler (BFS), which also seems to
work very well.
So yeah, the stock kernel can already perform very well, but it depends
on how it is compiled.
Regards,
Philipp
We are happy to announce that the real time
kernel will be an
official upstream release patch. It will be installed by default
if the audio task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are
very happy with it's performance in audio environments.
Recent stock kernels seem to be RT anyway. The one that came
with the ArchLinux install on my notebook a few weeks ago is
2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 13 13:36:23.
I've been running an USB interface on that machine with -n 3
-p 64 for the last 6 hours. Round-trip latency with this setup
is 9.41 ms, and I've seen zero xruns so far. Never been able to
do that before.
Ciao,