"I'm interested to hear any test cases you guys may have that justify why you need -rt. "
every.single.time. without rt, the packages I use are virtually useless. performance sucks. with rt, a world of good. it always amazed me that redhat never let Fedora into their 'real-time' kernel plans. would have been great if fedora was bleeding edge for that now. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:42:02PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > I believe this is easily feasible given enough manpower, most ccrma > packages > > are pretty clean, they just need someone to push them through the > review > > process, then the biggest hurdle left is ... the rt-kernel. > > > > Well since I seem to be talking to the right person now, I know you > hate this > > question, but ... how strongly would you object to having an rt kernel > variant > > within Fedora? > > Not incredibly keen tbh. I'd sooner just add -rt to the regular kernel > package > and suck it up, but that obviously takes us further from our 'upstream > first' > mantra. > > Ingo & Thomas are getting sizable chunks of it merged upstream, but I > don't think > we'll be seeing it all merged soon, but then again, F10 is quite a ways > off, > and with a few more kernel releases, who knows. > Depends how objectionable the remaining bits are I guess. > Given that so many people are now distributing products based on this > work, getting > it all in mainline is obviously important, and there's no shortage of > manpower > helping drive it there. > > All this said, I personally haven't hit any issues with things like MIDI > in > Fedora where the -rt kernel would have helped me. Maybe my gear is > special, > but latency between me hitting a key on a synth and having that note show > up in rosegarden, and a sound being created is well below perceivable. > I'm interested to hear any test cases you guys may have that justify why > you need -rt. Right now the guys working on that stuff typically have a > bunch of 'boring' test cases more tailored towards replicating situations > like stock trades and the like. If we can construct additional use-cases > I'm sure Ingo, Thomas & co would be very interested to hear about them. > Especially if these cases are triggering different latency paths. > > Dave > > -- > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-music-list mailing list > Fedora-music-list@redhat.com > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list >
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