On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Atte André Jensen <atte@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > Aparently a new, 200 lines kernel patch have been buzzing the web lately, > supposedly it should provide a much more responsive desktop. > > But this userspace alternative should be even better: > http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html > > Anyone heard of it, tried it and/or has any thoughts whether it has anything > to offer on a DAW? it doesn't look terribly relevant because a DAW is going to schedule most threads that matter with SCHED_FIFO. these threads will be scheduled by a different set of rules than SCHED_OTHER (i.e. most of the desktop threads, and the scheduling class that is affected by the patch). that's not to say it might not still make things feel a bit better, but it won't really make lower latencies possible etc. etc.. I think. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
