On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:31 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate. But for > > > MIDI or video where you have to periodically push data to the device it > > > matters. > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? > > Well, i suppose it's a tradeoff between throughput and responsiveness. > Larger timeslices increase system throughput (less time is spent in the > scheduler) while smaller timeslices increase responsiveness. Someone proposed HZ=864 which might be OK. Can someone tell me what the minimum HZ you would need to send MIDI clock or MTC would be? I think this is a good place to draw the line. Lee
