[linux-audio-user] Low latency with 2.6.16.16 vanilla

[Mark Knecht]

On 5/23/06, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:01:28PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I'm just echoing Lee's inputs as someone who's been down the low
> > latency path for a while now. I am currently using 2.6.16-gentoo-r2
> > with no low latency patches. It works fine on my AMD64 hardware, at
> > least for low work load low latency needs. I run at 64/2 on my HDSP
> > 9652 and get no xruns doing mostly mixing and a very little recording.
> > However I do require realtime-lsm be enabled and loaded. Without
> > realtime-lsm all kernels on my machine, with or without Ingo's
> > patches, cause xruns.
>
> Does realtime-lsm offer any performance benefits over simply
> running relevant sound apps as root? I'm aware of the security benefits.
>

No.

Cheers,
Mark