Re: [LAU] Decent but not necessarily pro quality USB audio for laptop?

James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:11:44AM -1000, david wrote:
>> I wouldn't be surprised to find that the silly laptop shares
>> interrupts with PCMCIA, video and audio hardware!
>
> Not considered very harmful these days.

What does "these days" mean in terms of hardware? The laptop is running
a 1.5GHz Celeron M (the Celeron that's a kind of cut-down Mobile Pentium
4, with way too small a processor cache for the P4 architecture).
Effective throughput is about the same as a 1GHz non-M Celeron.

> But by all means measure the
> latency in response to those interrupts, see if there is a real problem.
> Perhaps one of the drivers needs to defer some processing to soft-IRQ.

Sorry - ????

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David
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