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SubjectRe: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread
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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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