Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

Ingo Molnar
2004-08-16T03:25:28Z

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 22:58, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > if it doesnt change the xruns then it shows that it's not the locking of
> > make_pages_present() that interacts with jackd, but it's what it does
> > that interacts with it (or with the audio driver).
> >
> > assuming the DMA-starvation theory isnt excluded via mlock-test2.c:
>
> Sorry, you lost me here. Does the behavior of mlock-test2 point to
> the locking of make_pages_present interfering with jackd, or with the
> audio driver?

it's rather pointing in the direction of locking, away from DMA issues.
Any DMA issue should not depend if we do the activity in 8 chunks or in
one go. Locking on the other hand depends on the length of a single
chunk, not on the length of the total activity.

Ingo