Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:43:02 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:01 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I seriously hoped core things > like memory controller in the northbridge or embedded in the cpu would > not risk to generate any starvation.
Nforce4 chipsets have some problems that look like DMA starvation too, the RME people claim to have traced it to the SATA controller.
http://www.rme-audio.de/english/techinfo/nforce4_tests.htm
Basically these all fall under common sense engineering, you don't use buggy/unproved hardware for an RT or any mission critical system.
Lee
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