Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: new preemptive kernel-patch from Montavista available
From: yodaiken_AT_fsmlabs.com
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 01:00:56 EET
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:02:01PM -0800, Nigel Gamble wrote:
> Anyway, I refuse to get into a marketing discussion, I'll just keep
> putting out patches that keep improving interactivity for real
> Linux applications.
Marketing/shmarketing. The technical argument is quite straightforward
Increased pre-emption -> increased complexity + slower throughput
Andrew Morton's "minimalist" approach to lower Linux latency seems to me to
be quite promising. Reinventing IRIX on Linux seems to me to be an error.
Code will tell.
---------------------------------------------------------
Victor Yodaiken
Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company.
www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Fri Nov 24 2000 - 01:59:08 EET