Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches

From: Con Kolivas (kernel@kolivas.org)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 09:49:03 EST


On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:02, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> Marc-Christian Petersen escribe el 26/07/03 11:46:
> > XMMS does not skip, but hey, I don't care about XMMS skipping at all.
>
> For those of us who'd like to use Linux as a serious musical production
> environment in the near future, it is important to have the choice of a
> system that does exactly that. This is, audio should not skip even on a
> heavily loaded system. We do not care much about graphical
> responsiveness. Think of something like Pro Tools LE running over Mac
> OS, with up to 32 audio tracks being mixed without the help of a DSP
> chip. Even when CPU usage gets higher than 80%, you don't get a single
> audio glitch.
>
> Of course, for musical production, also the lowest latency achievable is
> a must.
>
> This is only a humble opinion which I hope you find useful.

Everyone's opinion counts here as everyone uses the scheduler. As far as I'm
concerned it should perform well in as many settings as possible.

Con

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