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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>,
	"Linux-Kernel," <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:21:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061129072100.GA1983@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164751282.7543.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>


* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:

> > i fixed this in -rt8: the latency tracer now uses the time of day 
> > clocksource - pmtimer in this case. (that means function tracing is 
> > slower than with the TSC, but latency figures are more reliable.)
> 
> I have a patch set to make the using the clocksources a little nicer.. 
> Is there anything I should add to that interface to help enable 
> latency tracing, or are you satisfied with using the timekeeping 
> clocksource? It might get constrictive after a while.

please talk to John and Thomas about GTOD interfaces. Right now the 
solution used by the latency tracer is working out pretty OK - but if 
something better comes along i can use that too. It's not a burning 
issue though, unless you know of some bug. (i'm not sure what you mean 
by it becoming constrictive)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-28 19:58 2.6.19-rc6-rt8: alsa xruns Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-28 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-28 20:37   ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-28 21:04     ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-28 21:35       ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-28 23:22         ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-29  7:24         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-29 13:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-29 18:38         ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-29 19:51           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-29 20:22             ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-29 20:34             ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2006-11-28 20:12 ` Lee Revell
2006-11-28 20:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-28 22:01     ` Daniel Walker
2006-11-29  7:21       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-11-29 16:24         ` Daniel Walker

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