Re: [LAU] Issue with the priority of the sound cards using rtirq

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Wed May 02 2012 - 04:41:08 EEST

> (I don't seem to find the start of the thread in my mailbox)
>
> ohci_hcd is there is you specify usb in the list of priorities rtirq
> needs to raise. And nvidia is there probably because it shares an
> interrupt with a real soundcard. Rtirq does not raise the priority of
> only the soundcard, but everything that uses the interrupt that the
> soundcard uses.
>
> AFAIK it is not possible (or simple) to raise _just_ the soundcard as
> it
> is impossible to know which irq process corresponds to a soundcard
> (and
> which one does not). That is because the labeling of the irq process
> names in the ps listing is arbitrary. At least that is what I
> remember
> seeing last I looked at this issue. You can of course manually lower
> the
> priorities of non-soundcard irq processes with chrt.
>
> -- Fernando

The IRQ issue also is there for e.g. my AVLinux install, but there it
anyway is possible to get the wanted prio order:

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-April/084689.html

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