From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:37:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:37:42 -0500 Received: from passion.cambridge.redhat.com ([172.16.18.67]:46981 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:37:31 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <200101301630.LAA15247@renoir.op.net> In-Reply-To: <200101301630.LAA15247@renoir.op.net> To: Paul Davis Cc: Joe deBlaquiere , yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, Andrew Morton , Nigel Gamble , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-audio-dev@ginette.musique.umontreal.ca Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:35:48 +0000 Message-ID: <7989.980872548@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org pbd@Op.Net said: > no, thats not the logical answer at all. the logical answer is > something like the excellent but neglected UTIME patch that > continually reprograms the system timer so that you can get precise > event scheduling without the insane overhead of HZ=10000. Indeed. Which, as an added bonus, lets me nick the system timer and reprogram it to 18KHz for the PC speaker driver :) But that's a different story. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/