From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261738AbULOIcb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:32:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261785AbULOIcb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:32:31 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:22744 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261738AbULOIca (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:32:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:32:22 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Chris Friesen cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dynamic-hz In-Reply-To: <41BF7966.20009@nortelnetworks.com> Message-ID: References: <20041211142317.GF16322@dualathlon.random> <20041212163547.GB6286@elf.ucw.cz> <20041212222312.GN16322@dualathlon.random> <41BCD5F3.80401@kolivas.org> <1103064879.14699.75.camel@krustophenia.net> <41BF7966.20009@nortelnetworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> Ugh, because mplayer stupidly does disk i/o and AV playback and GUI in >> the same thread. Insert Xine plug. There has been a real flame war on using threads in mplayer -- it ended in a fork into mplayer-xp. Surprisingly, the problem is not mplayer. Using the OSS kernel modules instead of ALSA, audio may drop, but it does not _skip_ it. > This is not a problem as long as all of them can be done totally async. As > soon as anything blocks, then there's an issue. Is there a way i can prioritize mplayer to get disk i/o done first? Jan Engelhardt -- ENOSPC