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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Alex Stone <alex.parchment@yandex.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Timing 250 versus 1000
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:08:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F818DBA.3080108@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F815FCE.5040002@yandex.ru>

Alex Stone wrote:
> Is there an important reason why timing in the kernel is set to 250 by default?

It's a compromise.  Read kernel/Kconfig.hz.

> those of us who write a lot of midi driven work, we're still more or
> less required to use some sort of RT kernel to get any degree of
> playback timing accuracy.

The ALSA sequencer timer stopped using the system timer years ago.
And the difference between RT and 'normal' kernels is not the timer
frequency.


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-08 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-08  9:52 Timing 250 versus 1000 Alex Stone
2012-04-08 13:08 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
     [not found]   ` <4F81CE0A.6080207@yandex.ru>
2012-04-10 10:04     ` Clemens Ladisch
2012-04-10 15:39       ` Alex Stone

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