Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-16 Thread victor
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Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-16 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 victor wrote: ... | Comparing the RT audio performance of the two, I must say | I am disappointed with how worse it has got. ... | One of the things I have been playing with is a little MIDI file player | (one of the test/example activities in devel.la

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-08 Thread Andrew Burgess
On 8/8/08, Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, this is exactly the issue described on the ticket. It is the cause > of some of the audio problems. I am in the process of getting patched > hal into the builds which fixes this. I already commented on the ticket but perhaps it's suitable

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:10 -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Here an other observation which might have something to do with this. > In joyride-2266 (booted from SD card) I noticed that there is a lot of > logging of the traffic to the EC. > Just do dmesg and you see a burst of about 18 olpc-ec: m

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-08 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:57:06PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Aug 07 2008, at 21:45, victor was caught saying: > > I will keep testing, but I expect that this will also have an impact > > on TamTam. I wonder if more 'aggressive' RT preemption patches > > (Ingo Molnar's ones come to mind) woul

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-07 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Aug 07 2008, at 21:45, victor was caught saying: > a few ms. I wondered about a change in > preemption settings in the kernel that comes with the new OS. > For some reason, 2263 seems slightly better than 2232, but I have > to test more (I only updated it this evening) As noted in #7603, the is

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-07 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi Victor, > > Thanks a lot for the feedback. > > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:45 +0100, victor wrote: > >> One of the things I have been playing with is a little MIDI file >> player >> (one of the test/example activities in >> devel.laptop.org/activities/csndsugui), >> which u

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-07 Thread Richard A. Smith
victor wrote: > which uses a soundfont synthesis engine. On the older system, I > can play most files with only the occasional dropout, generally > quite solidly. But on the later (2232 and 2263), I get many more > dropouts. Every now and then the OS seems to get a break and > go out for coffee or

Re: comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Victor, Thanks a lot for the feedback. On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 21:45 +0100, victor wrote: > One of the things I have been playing with is a little MIDI file > player > (one of the test/example activities in > devel.laptop.org/activities/csndsugui), > which uses a soundfont synthesis engine. On t

comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

2008-08-07 Thread victor
I have been using, for the last weeks joyride-2232 and now I have joyride-2263. On the other XO, I have a much earlier joyride (1***). Comparing the RT audio performance of the two, I must say I am disappointed with how worse it has got. One of the things I have been playing with is a little MIDI