Re: [linux-audio-dev] Lowlatency rpm problem

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Lowlatency rpm problem
From: Benno Senoner (sbenno_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 18:13:56 EEST


On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, miriam rainsford wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying Benno's kernel rpms with Ingo's low latency patches... at the moment I'm running 2.2.17-1LL for i686,
> on a Mandrake system (as you'd all know it is in theory Red Hat based so it
>should work...). Its all working beautifully - very nice indeed! - except now
>my system won't power down from linux. Just wondering if anyone else has had
>that problem and if there is a fix for it?
>
>
>Miriam.

Hi Miriam,
you are right power down does not work , because I intentionally disabled apm
(power managment) support when compiling the RPM.
This because on some motherboards, the APM interrups cause high latency peaks.

But I don't think that it is a high price to pay, being forced to press the
power button when powering down your box, in return of 5msec latencies ....

PS: I had a few crashes using the 2.2.17 RPM on my box, but I am not 100% sure
it it was due to my app (EVO) deadlocking in an infinite loop (and since it runs
SCHED_FIFO, it never releases the CPU thus your box will freeze)

So I am asking you guys:
did some of you experience crashes with this kernel ?
(Udo basically took a plain 2.2.17 kernel an applied Ingo's 2.2.16 LL patch)

cheers,
Benno.

 


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