Re: unrelated 2.4.x (x=0-9) sound

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:05:56 +0100 (BST)


> i.e. you mean that PCI-ISA bridge doesnt provide enough
> realtimeness to fill internal sb buffer?

Yep.

> i have the next "but": isn`t internal sb buffer
> enough large to flatten these io peaks?

> but next why: why "find /" does not achieve
> same effect? the datastream is _way_ larger!

It may depend whether the CPU is generating the traffic or not. On some
bridges CPU generated writes win all bus arbitrations by default
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