From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Niccol=F2_Belli?= Subject: Re: 2.6.3x-rty where x > 3 and y >= 1? Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:20:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4CF13DC0.8080109@gmail.com> References: <4CDAF425.4050800@ccrma.stanford.edu> <4CDC0429.8090506@gmail.com> <1289515742.14141.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4CE6E9B2.1040005@gmail.com> <4CEDAE00.1050800@gareus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-9 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ng Oon-Ee , Fernando Lopez-Lezcano , "linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org" , Thomas Gleixner , Daniel James , Free Ekanayaka To: Robin Gareus Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:33028 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499Ab0K0RUI (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:20:08 -0500 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so2976065wyb.19 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:20:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4CEDAE00.1050800@gareus.org> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Il 25/11/2010 01:29, Robin Gareus ha scritto: > Don't worry. It's not worth the hype it generated. I'm just back from > rolling a new kernel for 64studio. I tried a couple of candidates > including -bfs. > > 2.6.33.7-rt29 is _by far_ the best option for low-latency audio. > Well, actually it's the only option (not counting older rt-linux > releases) which provides reliable <=4 ms latency (16 or 32 audio-frames > per period) without any x-runs! I agree: I patched alsa git to make it compile but I didn't notice any major improvement with -bfs :-( I hope the next -rt kernel will be released soon, otherwise I fear I will crash my laptop next time I hear "what about buying a Mac?" .-. Darkbasic