On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:22 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > --On Tuesday, July 12, 2005 16:58:44 -0400 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:30 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> Some sort of comprimise has to be struck for now, until we get sub-HZ > >> timers. I'd prefer 100, personally (I had that set as default in my tree > >> for a long time). Some people would prefer 1000 or even more, maybe. > >> 250/300 seems like a reasonable comprimise to me. Exactly what problems > >> *does* it cause (in visible effect, not "timers are less granular"). > >> Jittery audio/video? How much worse is it? > > > > OK, here's a real world example, taken straight from the linux-audio-dev > > list today. > > OK, what level causes Midi stuttering to stop then, under some fairly > reasonable load? Of course ... if we set HZ to 100000, we'll get higher > res still ... the question is how high it *needs* to be ;-)
I don't remember the details, but they can be found in the list archives. I only remember that 100HZ is not good enough and 1000HZ is OK. Anyway it looks like this is a done deal. If it breaks a lot of apps then we'll have to deal with it. Lee - 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/
