Re: Timing 250 versus 1000

[Clemens Ladisch]

Alex Stone wrote:
> Is there an important reason why timing in the kernel is set to 250 by default?

It's a compromise.  Read kernel/Kconfig.hz.

> those of us who write a lot of midi driven work, we're still more or
> less required to use some sort of RT kernel to get any degree of
> playback timing accuracy.

The ALSA sequencer timer stopped using the system timer years ago.
And the difference between RT and 'normal' kernels is not the timer
frequency.


Regards,
Clemens
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