Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:18:35AM -0500, Frank Brickle wrote: > Eric Blossom wrote: > > >Using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 effectively forces the old (pre-NPTL) > >behavior, which means that acquiring an uncontested mutex requires a > >trip to the kernel. I believe it also means that mutexes won't w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:55:55AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:33, Eric Blossom wrote: > > I was burned by ext3 with regard to streaming disk throughput. > > I ended up remounting the relevant filesystem as ext2 to avoid the > > problem. I have no info regarding CPU an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-09 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:33, Eric Blossom wrote: > I was burned by ext3 with regard to streaming disk throughput. > I ended up remounting the relevant filesystem as ext2 to avoid the > problem. I have no info regarding CPU and/or preemption issues during > journal posting. If we never go to

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:24:30AM +0100, Stephane Fillod wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:26:07AM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > I assume you meant 'us' (micro-second), and not micro sample or micro > Siemens :-) Definitely micro Siemens! > Talking about getting to the 32us area, this is wha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Stephane Fillod
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:26:07AM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:18:35AM -0500, Frank Brickle wrote: > > Eric Blossom wrote: > > > > >Using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 effectively forces the old (pre-NPTL) > > >behavior, which means that acquiring an uncontested mutex require

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Frank Brickle
Eric Blossom wrote: ... I ended up remounting the relevant filesystem as ext2 to avoid the problem...If we never go to the disk, it might not matter at all. > ... It's been a long time since I looked at these pages: http://ardour.org/requirements.php http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/soft

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:52:14PM -0500, Frank Brickle wrote: > Eric Blossom wrote: > > >... > >I ended up remounting the relevant filesystem as ext2 to avoid the > >problem...If we never go to the disk, it might not matter at > >all. > > ... > > It's been a long time since I looked at these pag

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:59:49PM -0500, Robert McGwier wrote: > It was **specifically* * the Reiserfs that ran us away from it to the > less troublesome (at the time) EXT3. Isn't XFS deprecated because of > all the problems associated with it? I might be wrong but that is what I > recall. >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Robert McGwier
It was **specifically* * the Reiserfs that ran us away from it to the less troublesome (at the time) EXT3. Isn't XFS deprecated because of all the problems associated with it? I might be wrong but that is what I recall. Bob -- snip, Eric wants to leave EXT3 for ReiserFS - -- AM

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:46:54AM -0500, Frank Brickle wrote: > Eric Blossom wrote: > > >>Bottom line, it hasn't actually been proved that running SCHED_FIFO will > >>squash the existing latency and continuity problems, so I'm not at all > >>sure much is missing without that capability. > > > >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-08 Thread Frank Brickle
Eric Blossom wrote: Bottom line, it hasn't actually been proved that running SCHED_FIFO will squash the existing latency and continuity problems, so I'm not at all sure much is missing without that capability. Frank, is this a statement or a question? It's a statement. I don't have any rea

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-07 Thread Frank Brickle
Eric Blossom wrote: Using LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 effectively forces the old (pre-NPTL) behavior, which means that acquiring an uncontested mutex requires a trip to the kernel. I believe it also means that mutexes won't work in shared memory across process boundaries. Those seem like total los

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SCHED_FIFO and NPTL

2006-03-07 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:25:13AM +0100, Stephane Fillod wrote: > > > On 2/26/06, Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is some fairly straight-forward work that can be done to reduce > > > the latency of the user mode code, and that's probably a good first > > > step. This would a