Re: RT patch acceptance

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 12:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> FYI, to get good latencies for jack you currently need the -RT tree and 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT. (see Lee Revell's and Rui Nuno Capela's extensive tests)
> 
> In other words, cond_resched() in might_sleep() (PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, 
> which i announced Jul 9 last year) is _not_ good enough for 
> advanced-audio (jack) users. PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is mostly good enough for 
> simple audio playback / gaming.

It's neither good enough for a lot of embedded applications, but _RT is.

tglx


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