From: Bill Huey (Hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ed.sweetman@wmich.edu, eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@kolivas.org,
"Bill Huey (Hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:09:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030808210950.GA2142@gnuppy.monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307300946.41674.phillips@arcor.de>
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:46:41AM -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:56, Timothy Miller wrote:
> > ...since we're dealing with real-time and audio issues, is there any
> > way we can do this: When the interrupt arrives from the sound card so
> > that the driver needs to set up DMA for the next block or whatever it
> > does, move any processes which talk to an audio device to the head of
> > the process queue?
>
> That would be a good thing. To clarify, there are typically two buffers
> involved:
>
> - A short DMA buffer
> - A longer buffer into which the audio process generates samples
>
> There are several cycles through the short buffer for each cycle through the
> long buffer. On one of these cycles, the contents of the long buffer will
> drop below some threshold and the refill process should be scheduled,
> according to your suggestion. Developing a sane API for that seems a little
> challenging. Somebody should just hack this and demonstrate the benefit.
>
> In the meantime, the SCHED_SOFTRR proposal provides a way of closely
> approximating the above behaviour without being intrusive or
> application-specific.
You might also like to think about driving the scheduler with an
interrupt from the DMA device, if it's regular, or VBL (vertical
retrace) for video/graphics applications. IRIX's REACT/pro RT system
does stuff like this.
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&srch=&fname=/SGI_Developer/REACT_PG/sgi_html/pr02.html
It's in their frame scheduler section.
bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-08 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-26 9:30 Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-26 9:46 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-26 10:02 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2003-07-26 10:10 ` Eugene Teo
2003-07-26 11:24 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-26 17:00 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 15:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-26 16:52 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-26 18:35 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-26 23:01 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-28 9:38 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-28 10:37 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-07-28 17:06 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-27 2:38 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-27 7:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-07-27 9:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-07-27 11:54 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-27 20:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-26 22:05 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-08-01 15:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-31 23:02 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-27 2:39 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-07-29 13:56 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-29 13:57 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-29 15:30 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-29 15:52 ` Helge Hafting
2003-07-29 16:26 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-30 14:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-29 15:40 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-30 16:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-08-08 21:09 ` Bill Huey [this message]
2003-08-06 21:28 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-07 9:34 ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-07 15:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-08-07 20:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-07 20:51 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-07 21:40 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-08-07 22:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-08 0:01 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-09 20:52 ` George Anzinger
2003-08-14 0:24 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-14 8:01 ` George Anzinger
2003-08-16 9:10 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-16 14:29 ` APM and 2.5.75 not resuming properly Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 15:03 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-08-16 16:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-16 20:43 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-13 3:38 ` Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches George Anzinger
2003-08-08 6:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-07-26 12:08 ` Ismael Valladolid Torres
2003-07-26 14:54 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-26 14:49 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-26 14:47 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-26 16:42 ` Lou Langholtz
2003-07-26 16:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-07-26 18:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-26 18:31 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-26 19:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-26 19:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-07-27 9:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-07-27 9:57 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-27 10:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-07-27 10:19 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-28 22:44 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-26 14:44 Downing, Thomas
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