Re: Real-time rw-locks (Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.32-15)

[Andrew McGregor]

On 28/12/2004, at 10:06 AM, Bill Huey (hui) wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:39:20AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Actually, I've had some success with NVIDIA on all my kernels (except 
> > of
>
> Doesn't the NVidia driver use their own version of DRM/DRI ?
> If so, then did you tell it to use the Linux kernel versions of that
> driver ?
>
> > course the realtime ones). Unfortunately, there are the little crashes
> > here and there, but those usually happen with screen savers so I don't
>
> I was just having a discussion about this last night with a friend
> of mine and I'm going to pose this question to you and others.
>
> Is a real-time enabled kernel still relevant for high performance
> video even with GPUs being as fast as they are these days ?

It is if you want to do any audio at the same time, as you usually do.

Andrew

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