Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2, preemptable hardirqs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 01:10:07 EST



* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The obvious next feature to add would be to make certain IRQs
> non-schedulable, like you would for an RT system. For an audio system
> this would be just the soundcard interrupt (and timer as stated
> above). Then, while it still might not be hard-RT, it would blow away
> anything achievable on the other OS'es people do audio work with.

yes, this is the next step. Does v=3 work on your system? (even if the
delaying of the soundcard irq causes latencies.)

Ingo
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