From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272496AbTGZOaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:30:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272497AbTGZOaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:30:05 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:41353 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272496AbTGZO35 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:29:57 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Ismael Valladolid Torres , Marc-Christian Petersen Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:49:03 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana , LKML , mingo@elte.hu References: <1059211833.576.13.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <200307261142.43277.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <3F2251D3.3090107@sambara.org> In-Reply-To: <3F2251D3.3090107@sambara.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307270049.03730.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:02, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Marc-Christian Petersen escribe el 26/07/03 11:46: > > XMMS does not skip, but hey, I don't care about XMMS skipping at all. > > For those of us who'd like to use Linux as a serious musical production > environment in the near future, it is important to have the choice of a > system that does exactly that. This is, audio should not skip even on a > heavily loaded system. We do not care much about graphical > responsiveness. Think of something like Pro Tools LE running over Mac > OS, with up to 32 audio tracks being mixed without the help of a DSP > chip. Even when CPU usage gets higher than 80%, you don't get a single > audio glitch. > > Of course, for musical production, also the lowest latency achievable is > a must. > > This is only a humble opinion which I hope you find useful. Everyone's opinion counts here as everyone uses the scheduler. As far as I'm concerned it should perform well in as many settings as possible. Con