From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 23:55:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [rtl] Low-latency patches working GREAT (<2.9ms audio latency), see testresults ,but ISDN troubl Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:40:57PM +0200, Benno Senoner wrote: > - The disk performance decreases by 10-25% when I increase the CPU load in > the "latencytest" bench. > (On light CPU load there are no disk performance differences, > maybe this is related to higher scheduling overhead) > > I think most of us want to have these "low-latency" features in the upcoming > 2.4 kernel since it will make Linux a very good _MULTIMEDIA_OS_. A 25% disk i/o decrease is very serious. Lets get some serious feedback from people running internet and database servers before we blow off the server users in order to compete with BEOS.