On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like
> > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate. But for
> > MIDI or video where you have to periodically push data to the device it
> > matters.
>
> What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue?
Well, i suppose it's a tradeoff between throughput and responsiveness.
Larger timeslices increase system throughput (less time is spent in the
scheduler) while smaller timeslices increase responsiveness.
Flo
-- Palimm Palimm! http://affenbande.org/~tapas/Received on Wed Jul 13 20:15:33 2005
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