Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:19:00 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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Jack O'Quin wrote: > Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
>>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".
I don't see anywere that Matt was criticising Ingo's work. He just said that it wasn't hard realtime--which is true.
A hard realtime system will *guarantee* that the deadlines will be met, *no matter what*. It makes all kinds of other sacrifices to do it, and it makes additional demands on the application designer as well.
I don't think Ingo would claim that his patches make Linux a hard RT operating system.
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