Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches

From: Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 10:30:07 EST


Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:56, Timothy Miller wrote:
>

>
>>interactive processing in the desired time. I don't think we should be
>>making scheduler tweaks to fix this corner case because it's impossible
>>to fix, no?
>
>
> Your concerns are well founded. However neither Ingo nor I (and all the other
> contributors) are trying to make an audio app scheduler. At some stage a
> modification will be made to the mainline kernel which will have adequate
> audio performance in many (but not all) settings, and more importantly be
> fair and interactive.
>

For this case, I wasn't concerned with audio but with any combination of
interactive tasks. That is, if you have enough interactive tasks going
on on a slow machine, you're going to get audio skips and other
interactivity problems and just have to live with it.

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