Messages in this thread | | | From | Benno Senoner <> | Subject | low-latency benchmarks: excellent results of RTC clock + SIGIO notification, audio-latency now down to 2.1ms! | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:58:12 +0200 |
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Hi, good news folks:
Paul Barton Davis added async notification via SIGIO to the RTC device, and I enhanced "latencytest" (you can get the latest version from my page) to measure timedifferences between two SIGIO calls, All benchmarks performed using Mingo's low-latency patch (without his patch timing sucks) The results are very good, In my example I used an RTC frequency of 2048HZ, and the maximum jitter was about 500usecs (very sporadic , shows up every 60-100secs).
look at the the results: CPU load=80% http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/rtc2048-cpu80/2048.html
CPU load=10% http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/rtc2048-cpu10/2048.html
A typical use could be an app which needs 1ms timing precision ( MIDI sequencer for example).
I have more good news, On my audio benchmarks I was able to reduce the audio buffer size from 4.3ms to ONLY 2.1ms ( 3x0.7ms buffers) ! , without losing reliability ,in this case the max jitter is about 0.7ms in the range of the fragment-time.
look at the results: CPU load=80% http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/audio3x128-cpu80/3x128.html
CPU load=10% http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/audio3x128-cpu10/3x128.html
It's interesting that If I use 4.3ms = 3x1.45ms buffers, the max jitter (again very sporadic) is about 1.5ms , the time it takes to play one fragment.
Seems that under high disk I/O load, (very seldom, about every 30-100secs) the process gets woken up one IRQ period later. Ideas why this happens.
The trick to deliver rock-solid audio seems to use 3 buffer, so that you can have about 33% headroom.
Seems that we are now able to outperform most of the other OSes in terms of timing precision/ latency ( multimedia loves this) :-)
In future, we will probably not need RT-Linux to deliver realtime audio on Linux. (As processors get faster , jitter will go down)
comments ?
regards, Benno.
--- Benno Senoner E-Mail: sbenno@gardena.net Linux low latency audio / scheduling latency benchmarks http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio
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