Re: [LAU] rtirq

2015-03-15 10:18 GMT+01:00 Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden>:

> On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:29:25 +0100
> Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > On 03/15/2015 12:12 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
> > >
> > > There was a comment a while ago about not listing rtc in rtirq a while
> > > ago, that there are other better timers to use on modern systems
> anyway.
> > >
> >
> > Hello Len,
> >
> > There is barely any software left that uses rtc, most MIDI software uses
> > the ALSA timers (snd-timer or snd-hrtimer). Just installed Muse and the
> > version that got installed uses rtc, maybe Rosegarden uses rtc too but
> > afaik those are the only ones still relying on rtc for their timing.
> > Most other software that uses ALSA for MIDI get their timing from the
> > ALSA timers. You
>
> Don't know about others, but Rosegarden gives you a choice of all the
> timers it
> can find.
>

MusE tries first RTC and if that doesn't work it uses ALSA. It should be
noted that ALSA can internally be setup to use RTC or HPET as well as
system timer, and maybe other timers.
I won't go in to how that would effect performance either way though.

Regards,
Robert

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Received on Sun Mar 15 16:15:02 2015