Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 20:43:17 EEST
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:50:38AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>> >Other low latency while high network I/O uses are video conferencing
>> >applications, diskless settop boxes that stream
>> >videos over IP etc.
>>
>> none of these are low latency applications.
>
>Fileservering for audio playback/recording is (the only really big FS I
>have in my studio is on an NFS server), and audio rendering clusters are a
>reasonable requirement, though maybe not over generic ethernet based IP.
totally agreed. when i said "none of these", i meant the ones listed
above. you can do significant buffering in those cases. you don't need
sub-msec scheduler latencies to handle them.
--p
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