-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:00:24PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:06, Ken Restivo wrote: > > What's with this "tickless" timer option for the HPET? What is its effect > > on audio/RT performance? Is it worth trying? > > > > Does it do anything on an Ingo-patched RT kernel anyway? > > > > -ken > > http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tickless_kernel > > Maybe it does some good though too, because generally the thoughput should > increase because that little bit of code called the scheduler is not run > additionally every 1/250 or 1/1000 sec. If i understand that correctly. > Wow, that's interesting. "Tickless" made a dramatic improvement in DSP usage! Instead of 65% at idle, it was more like 30%. However, I'm still getting lots of crackles, and possibly better than tickless, possibly worse, I can't tell. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwUZ7e8HF+6xeOIcRAvnVAJ9VStiPkg34Sbz/fSkKqVbd25OhoACggzHf ZQ9ARykiBENhim62ksJjNKA= =U0kK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
