Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] 20 msec
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: la maalis 11 2000 - 22:47:39 EST
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> My point was (clearly not very well expressed) that there is a limit to how
> far it is worth chasing - the last few % have been historically very hard
> and time-consuming to obtain.
These "last few %" would be getting less than 2 ms latency, and most
of the job is in the kernel. The kernel will not become preemptive,
so there probably will never be significantly lower worst case
latency than this on current CPUs.
//David
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