Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: Preemption on interrupt in Linux kernel

2001-12-12 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:34:34 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >I'm thinking for the benefits that low latency audio applications will > >have from preemption of running task in favour of the waiting task just > >at end of interrupt handler execution (instead of end of time slice). > > > >I don't beli

Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: Preemption on interrupt in Linux kernel

2001-12-11 Thread Paul Davis
>I'm thinking for the benefits that low latency audio applications will >have from preemption of running task in favour of the waiting task just >at end of interrupt handler execution (instead of end of time slice). > >I don't believe that such a mechanism is already in place in linux >kernel but