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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > The IDE IRQ handler can in fact run for several ms, which people > > sure can detect. > > Are you serious? Even at 10ms, the monitor refresh rate would have to > be over 100Hz for anyone to "notice" anything, right?... [...] you are assuming direct observation. Sure, a human (normally) doesnt notice smaller than say 10-20 msec of lag. But, a human very much notices indirect effects of latencies, such as the nasty 'click' a soundcard produces if it overruns. > What sort of numbers are you talking when you say several? a couple of msecs easily even on fast boxes. Well over 10 msecs on slower boxes. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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