Re: [LAU] OT: what is happening with RT kernel development?

From: Kaj Ailomaa <zequence@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Mar 30 2013 - 00:05:37 EET

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:00:15 +0100, <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> wrote:

> Le 29-03-2013 17:55, Harry van Haaren a écrit :
>
>> jonetsu@teksavvy.com wrote:
>>> Are the low latency kernels just another term for real-time kernels ?
>> No they are different. For almost all use-cases the low-latency kernel
>> is enough, the RT kernels are oriented towards hard real-time
>> performance. The low latency kernel is capable of at least down to
>> 2ms.. that is probably low enough for your use case?
>
> Could be, I don't know. This is about recording one instrument at a time
> in Ardour, basically.
>

As long as you are not doing software monitoring (i.e. listening to what
you are recording through Ardour, while recording it), you don't need low
latency at all, and might not need anything beyond linux-generic.

If you do software monitoring, linux-lowlatency may well be more than
enough.
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