Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: [rtl] Beowulf and RTLinux (and NIC latency)

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: [rtl] Beowulf and RTLinux (and NIC latency)
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: ke syys   29 1999 - 18:59:37 EDT


>Besides, why would you drop communication for 10 ms in a system that
>constantly transfers data with a cycle time of less than 10 ms?

10ms was just a guess.

Even so, because the nodes are going to be loosely coupled, you're not
going to be communicating all the time. It may be that the processing
net on one node is idle for a while (you turn off the TrueVerb, for
example). You'll need to be ready for the "restart cost", whatever it
is.

I'll try to check into what I'm half-remembering about this. I don't
know where the delay can come from - I should try to find the guy I
knew who worked on this stuff (which was an early precursor to
Beowulf).

--p


New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : pe maalis 10 2000 - 07:27:12 EST