Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:30:07 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches |
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Con Kolivas wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:56, Timothy Miller wrote: >
> >>interactive processing in the desired time. I don't think we should be >>making scheduler tweaks to fix this corner case because it's impossible >>to fix, no? > > > Your concerns are well founded. However neither Ingo nor I (and all the other > contributors) are trying to make an audio app scheduler. At some stage a > modification will be made to the mainline kernel which will have adequate > audio performance in many (but not all) settings, and more importantly be > fair and interactive. >
For this case, I wasn't concerned with audio but with any combination of interactive tasks. That is, if you have enough interactive tasks going on on a slow machine, you're going to get audio skips and other interactivity problems and just have to live with it.
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