Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

Alan Cox
2001-01-11T12:37:42Z

> The darn thing disables intrs on its own for quite some time with some of
> the more aggressive drivers. We saw our 20us latencies under RTLinux go up
> a lot with some of those drivers.

It isnt disabling interrupts. Its stalling the PCI bus. Its nasty tricks by
card vendors apparently to get good benchmark numbers.