From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264367AbUGMAsB (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:48:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264377AbUGMAsB (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:48:01 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:57987 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264367AbUGMAr7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:47:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:46:39 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu, mingo@elte.hu, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Message-Id: <20040712174639.38c7cf48.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1089677823.10777.64.camel@mindpipe> References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <20040710222510.0593f4a4.akpm@osdl.org> <1089673014.10777.42.camel@mindpipe> <20040712163141.31ef1ad6.akpm@osdl.org> <1089677823.10777.64.camel@mindpipe> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Revell wrote: > > > resierfs: yes, it's a problem. I "fixed" it multiple times in 2.4, but the > > fixes ended up breaking the fs in subtle ways and I eventually gave up. > > > > Interesting. There is an overwhelming consensus amongst Linux audio > folks that you should use reiserfs for low latency work. It seems to be misplaced. A simple make-a-zillion-teeny-files test here exhibits a 14 millisecond holdoff. > Should I try ext3? ext3 is certainly better than that, but still has a couple of potential problem spots. ext2 is probably the best at this time.