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SubjectRe: [linux-audio-dev] [PATCH++] latency-profiling for 2.4.0-test3-pre2k
I have been following the latency issue for some time now and I am happy
to report great strides have been taken in improving latency in the Linux
2.4.0-test2-pre? series of patches.

Here is a snapshot of some results that show promise!
I hope to repeat them on an SMP system soon.

Benno Senoner's (sbenno at gardena dot net) latencytest used for these charts:
See http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio/latencytest-0.42.tar.gz
for the source.

http://www.tux.org/~chessman/bench/latencytest/ has preliminary results with
charts showing the differences when hdparm unmaskirq and 32bit are toggled.

I varied the hdparm 16/32 bit I/O and interrupt unmasking, and got a non
intuitive result, better results for 16 bit I/O, unmasking disabled.
Tonight I will run the test with the other two cases and see if it correlates
to one of them.

System under test is a Dell GX1 400MHz PII IDE disk, running
linux-2.4.0-test2-pre5
mm/filemap.c patches from Andrew Morton dated Thu Jul 06 2000 - 23:21:48 EDT
ALSA-driver 0.5.8b
XFree86 Version 3.3.6 w/ Mach64, glx.o, agpart kernel module

All tests are showing greater than 99% +/- 2ms for the disk tests.
The overruns appear to be mm related, Andrew's patch indicated
sys_close() and sys_exit() still need attention.

This is getting close to usable for my purposes!

--
Sam Chessman "E Pluribus Linux" chessman@tux.org




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