Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:40:30 -0400 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > >>>resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the >> >> > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up. >> > >> >> Interesting. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio >> folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work. > > > It seems to be misplaced. A simple make-a-zillion-teeny-files test here > exhibits a 14 millisecond holdoff. > > >> Should I try ext3? > > > ext3 is certainly better than that, but still has a couple of potential > problem spots. ext2 is probably the best at this time.
Does anyone have any data points on XFS in this regard? I agree that ext2 is faster than ext3, and ext3 probably has lower latency than reiser3, but I have no info at all on XFS. My JFS experience is all on AIX, as well, so if anyone has that info it might be interesting as well.
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