> hardware to hardware could have a higher priority than normal programs being
> run. That way they're not preempted by simple programs, it would have to
> be purposely preempted by the user.
How do you know they are there. How do you detect the situation, or do you
plan to audit every driver ?
> Lowering the latency, sure the low latency code probably does nearly as well
> as the preempt patch. that's fine. Shortening the time locks are held by
Not nearly as well. The tests I've seen it runs _better_ than just pre-empt
and pre-empt + low latency is the same as pure low latency - 1mS
Alan
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