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On 09/05/2009 02:43 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Samstag 05 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is |
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>> working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs |
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>> called "BFS": |
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>> http://lwn.net/Articles/350100 |
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>> Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with it here: |
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>> http://lwn.net/Articles/350820 |
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>> If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to give that one a try. In |
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>> my case, it helped immensely, especially with sound latency and skips |
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>> and other artifacts during real-time playback (I was not using an RT |
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>> kernel before that though). Note that BFS has been updated to 0.206 |
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>> since I wrote that. |
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>> The patch to kernel 2.6.30 and docs can be found at: |
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>> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs |
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> and what is with people like me - who for some magical reasons don't have |
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> problems with skips or latency? Without using rt-kernels of course.- |
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Then I guess you don't need this. As I said, on *my* system, it helped |
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quite a lot. |