A real time kernel is not going to make a noticeable difference on playback tasks until you start messing with the stream in real time (like what you would be doing on a DAW). I would not want to do that on a Geode :)
What you are really talking about is scheduling. Scheduling under Linux (or any OS really) is a complicated beast. If you are interested in messing with this, have a look at this site: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-set-real-time-scheduling-priority-process/ You might want to start messing with the nice value of mpd first. Also as a heads up, the 3.x series of the Linux kernel is taking rt in a different direction (basically the short short version is that soft-realtime will be in the generic kernels and should not require patches). Interesting times. Best of luck. __ G On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Ikem Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2011/12/29 Gustin Johnson <[email protected]>: > >> I am not sure what effect you expect from those patches? > > Smoother responsiveness. > >> Can you elaborate on the smoother audio playback? > > A realtime kernel makes sure, > > whatever realtime priority has, comes first. > > Independent from the workload. > > If you give MPD realtime priority, music will play, no matter what. > > -- > My blog: http://linux-workers.posterous.com/ _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
