> The multimedia stuff doesn't need an absolute guarentee (if it did it
> could never run under windows) it needs a reasonable expectation. from
> what has been posted if <100ms is needed the current linux code is
> expected to fail approx once per min. this is not acceptable, but if the
> failure rate was once per week it would be very acceptable (given the
> alturnatives of windows that will crash the whole system in less time then
> that :-) so while the statement is "max latency <5ms" it is probably a
> better statement to say "max latency <5ms 99.9% of the time"
Unfortunately, curent fbcon disables interrupts for 300msec each
console switch. Ouch. Thats 300msec dropout once in ten seconds (I
tend to switch consoles often). That hurts even TCP/IP performance!
Pavel
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