Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0

[Eric St-Laurent]

> Judging from these graphs, all of the latency issues are solved, at
> least on my UP hardware, and the latencies seem to be getting very close
> to the limits of what the hardware can do:
> 
> http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-Q6#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-Q6/jack-test-1
> 
> The worst case latency is only 160 usecs, and the vast majority fall
> into the pattern from 0 to 120 usecs.  All of the spikes above 120 are
> almost certainly caused by netdev_max_backlog.  However these are not
> long enough to cause any problems with my workload; the lowest practical
> latency for audio work is around 0.66 ms (32 frames at 48khz). 

Lee,

A few weeks ago you wrote that "the worst latency I was able to trigger
was 46 usecs", now it's 160 usecs.

Ingo has done much work on his patches since then.

Why the worst latency is higher now? I presume that the latency
measurements technique are more accurate and the 46 usecs was
inaccurate?

Ref: http://uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0407.3/0994.html

Best regards,

Eric St-Laurent


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