Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P0

[Ingo Molnar]

* Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > i've attached mlock-test2.cc that should test this theory. The code
> > breaks up the mlock-ed region into 8 equal pieces and does mlock() on
> > them separately. It's basically a lock-break done in user-space. Does
> > this change the nature of xruns?
> 
> This does change the xruns.  I have to `mlock-test2 8000' to produce
> any xrun at all, and that only produces a 2-300 usec xrun.  With
> mlockall-test the threshold to produce an xrun was ~1500.

did you try mlock-test.cc too? Just to make sure that mlock-test.cc is
equivalent to mlockall-test.cc.

	Ingo
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