> I'm not a developer and cannot really address your specific > question but for my use of the rt-kernel I put important rt-audio > files on a 1394 drive and give the 1394 driver higher priorities using > the IRQ scheduling tools. I don't have any trouble running 2 or 3 1394 > drives recording and playing back 48 channels in Ardour. > > While I agree you should do everything the right way technically in > the code maybe part of your solution is outside of the app you are > writing and in the use of these support tools? well, if i understand the rt howto correctly, _no_ disc access is allowed, neither from rt nor from non-rt threads, since it may produce page faults, which introduce latencies ... according to this definition, ardour is not an rt-safe application ... as for rt-safety, i prefer analyzing the latency hotspots instead of relying on test results tim -- tim@xxxxxxxxxx http://tim.klingt.org Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. Jack Kerouac
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