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

Lee Revell
2004-08-16T00:19:52Z

On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 20:25, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:56:49 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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..

FWIW, mlockall by an unrelated normal-priority process still causes
xruns in the SCHED_FIFO jackd process even when jackd is run with no
clients.

Lee