Re: 2.5.74-mm1

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:25:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > The scheduler has to work w/out external input, period.
>
> Can you justify this?
>
> It strikes me that a music player's thread which requests a special
> music-playing scheduling hint is not unreasonable, if that actually
> works and scheduler heuristics do not.

Jamie, looking at those reports it seems it is not only a sound players
problem. It is fine that an application that has strict timing issues
hints the scheduler. The *application* has to hint the scheduler, not the
user. If reports about UI interactivity are true, this means that there's
something wrong in the current scheduler though. Besides the player issue.

- Davide

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