Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: Preemption on interrupt in Linux kernel
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 00:34:34 EET
>I'm thinking for the benefits that low latency audio applications will
>have from preemption of running task in favour of the waiting task just
>at end of interrupt handler execution (instead of end of time slice).
>
>I don't believe that such a mechanism is already in place in linux
>kernel but I may be wrong.
i think that there is such code in the LL patches. the return to user
space codepath does a conditional_schedule() there. i think. if not,
it was a feature of ingo's original LL patch series.
--p
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