Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 19.06.09 20:32, Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net) wrote:
>
>
>> Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>
>>> So what does RealtimeKit do that previous solutions didn't do? rtkit
>>> relies on a new kernel feature SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK that got recently
>>> merged into Ingo's tree and will hence shortly appear in 2.6.31.
>>>
>> Is it proved not to negative affect MIDI jitter? It seems to be an up
>> and down with kernel versions. Audio always seems to be fine, while MIDI
>> jitter increases or decreases randomly from version to version. It
>> should been proved that it won't have unwanted effects, before it's
>> included to the rt patch's tree. I'm a user only, it's not an
>> assumption, just a question.
>>
>
> This should have no such impact. The flag is only checked for on
> fork(), i.e. almost never.
>
> Lennart
>

That's good Lennart. Thank you for the information. I always fear that
things can have impact to the poor relation rt-MIDI.

Best,
Ralf

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