From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267301AbUHPASX (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:18:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267312AbUHPAP4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:15:56 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41697 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267298AbUHPAPX (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:15:23 -0400 X-Authenticated: #4399952 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:25:54 +0200 From: Florian Schmidt To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Alfaro Solana , Lee Revell Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0 Message-Id: <20040816022554.16c3c84a@mango.fruits.de> In-Reply-To: <20040815115649.GA26259@elte.hu> References: <20040726204720.GA26561@elte.hu> <20040729222657.GA10449@elte.hu> <20040801193043.GA20277@elte.hu> <20040809104649.GA13299@elte.hu> <20040810132654.GA28915@elte.hu> <20040812235116.GA27838@elte.hu> <1092382825.3450.19.camel@mindpipe> <20040813104817.GI8135@elte.hu> <1092432929.3450.78.camel@mindpipe> <20040814072009.GA6535@elte.hu> <20040815115649.GA26259@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-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 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:56:49 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i've uploaded the -P0 patch: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0 I haven't tried this patch yet, but i have a question regarding the mlockall issue: Jackd also uses IPC mechnisms for remote procedure calls [i think, please correct me] and makes heavy use of shared memory. Might mlock(all) have influence of this? is jackd maybe producing xruns because some IPC stuff blocks when mlockall is used? I'm just guessing wildly and uneducatedly.. -- Palimm Palimm! http://affenbande.org/~tapas/