OK. Just for the heads up, here goes todays summary results regarding my jack_test4.2 test suite against 2.6.12 kernels configured with PREEMPT_RT, but... now with 99.9% certainty :)
------------------------------ ------------- ------------- RT-V0.7.51-13 RT-V0.7.49-01 ------------------------------ ------------- ------------- Total seconds ran . . . . . . : 900 900 Number of clients . . . . . . : 14 14 Ports per client . . . . . . : 4 4 Frames per buffer . . . . . . : 64 64 Number of runs . . . . . . . : 1 1 ------------------------------ ------------- ------------- Failure Rate . . . . . . . . : ( 0.0 ) ( 0.0) /hour XRUN Rate . . . . . . . . . . : 0.0 0.0 /hour Delay Rate (>spare time) . . : 0.0 0.0 /hour Delay Rate (>1000 usecs) . . : 0.0 0.0 /hour Delay Maximum . . . . . . . . : 333 295 usecs Cycle Maximum . . . . . . . . : 970 943 usecs Average DSP Load. . . . . . . : 45.7 44.4 % Average CPU System Load . . . : 15.6 16.3 % Average CPU User Load . . . . : 32.0 30.1 % Average CPU Nice Load . . . . : 0.0 0.0 % Average CPU I/O Wait Load . . : 0.0 0.1 % Average CPU IRQ Load . . . . : 0.0 0.0 % Average CPU Soft-IRQ Load . . : 0.0 0.0 % Average Interrupt Rate . . . : 1678.6 1680.4 /sec Average Context-Switch Rate . : 14446.4 14463.2 /sec ------------------------------ ------------- ------------- Just for the forgiveness sake, my mistake was useful after all, where one can incidentally assert the significantly lower performance of PREEMPT_DESKTOP for audio work, when PREEMPT_RT is a clear winner. As it was already, for quite some time. No more worries ;) Thanks, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/