Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:05:49 -0800 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:57:11PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > 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".
Eh? I never implied mainstream was good enough.
What I said was that high priority SCHED_OTHER could be made good enough and that that would be preferable to SCHED_FIFO in many cases.
Anyway, *plonk*.
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