Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:45:21 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] Re: [patch] `cp /dev/zero /tmp' (patch against 2.2.9) |
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Hi,
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:28:47 +0200, Benno Senoner <sbenno@gardena.net> said:
> do you think that a per-block-device IO scheduling will cure the > 70-150ms stall of audio playing applications during heavy disk I/O ?
If you mean playback from disk, then it depends on whether or not the data you are playing is on the same disk as the writes. If so, then per-device queuing by itself won't make the problem go away, you still need read/write conflict resolution.
> Just for curiousity , will it take much time to implement the > per-device scheduling on Linux ?
It depends on who is doing it. :)
--Stephen
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