Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM | From | "Jack O'Quin" <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:57:11 -0600 |
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Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:30:50AM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: >> "Near-RT" is about the most useless concept I've heard of in a long >> time. It sounds like the answer to a question nobody asked. ;-) > > To my way of thinking, it's a pretty good description of Ingo's work > or anything you're ever going to see on a PC. If you think you're > going to get real hard RT performance on your off-the-shelf x86 box > running a conventional OS, you are fooling yourself. > > Thankfully a buffer underrun is no more fatal for pro audio than a > broken guitar string. CDs skip, DATs glitch, XLR cables flake out, > circuit breakers trip, amps clip, Powerbooks crash, and the show goes > on. I've done more than enough stage tech to know it's a huge pain in > the ass, but let's stop pretending we require absolute perfection, > please.
In _practice_, Ingo's patches are considerably better than what you seem to consider "good enough for mere audio work". -- joq - 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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