Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:35:48 +0000


pbd@Op.Net said:
> no, thats not the logical answer at all. the logical answer is
> something like the excellent but neglected UTIME patch that
> continually reprograms the system timer so that you can get precise
> event scheduling without the insane overhead of HZ=10000.

Indeed. Which, as an added bonus, lets me nick the system timer and
reprogram it to 18KHz for the PC speaker driver :)

But that's a different story.

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dwmw2

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