On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 04/09/2016 08:00 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016, Sam Sany wrote: > >> I have yet to try the 4.5 kernel. I prefer to use a low-latency kernel, bc > >> the primary purpose of this machine is recording music. So I have been > >> downloading the newest source code available in the Ubuntu Studio > >> repositories, configuring with the xhci drivers modulized (by default Ubuntu > >> makes them builtin), and compiling from that. If I download the source for > >> 4.5, is there somewhere I can find a .config file that would allow for low- > >> latency performance? > > > > What do you mean by low-latency kernel? I'm not aware of any > > low-latency patches. > > > > There is the RT series, of course. But it's for bounded latency, not > > low latency. And as far as I know, it's not available for 4.5. > > low-latency kernel is a packaged Ubuntu alternate kernel configured as > CONFIG_PREEMPT=y + CONFIG_HZ=1000. > > The stock Ubuntu kernel is CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y + CONFIG_HZ=250. You can probably just copy the .config you're using now; it should be supplied as part of the Ubuntu package. You'd have to make a few adjustments for the differences between 4.2 and 4.5 but they wouldn't be very extensive. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
