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On 11/20/10 20:38, Ray Rashif wrote:

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> On 21 November 2010 02:33, torbenh  wrote:

>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:26:45AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Atte André Jensen  wrote:

>>>> Hi

>>>>

>>>> Aparently a new, 200 lines kernel patch have been buzzing the web lately,

>>>> supposedly it should provide a much more responsive desktop.

>>>>

>>>> But this userspace alternative should be even better:

>>>> http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.htm...

>>>>

>>>> Anyone heard of it, tried it and/or has any thoughts whether it has anything

>>>> to offer on a DAW?

>>>

>>> it doesn't look terribly relevant because a DAW is going to schedule

>>> most threads that matter with SCHED_FIFO. these threads will be

>>> scheduled by a different set of rules than SCHED_OTHER (i.e. most of

>>> the desktop threads, and the scheduling class that is affected by the

>>> patch). that's not to say it might not still make things feel a bit

>>> better, but it won't really make lower latencies possible etc. etc.. I

>>> think.

>>

>> looking at the 200lines patch... it seems to activate RT_GROUP_SCHED

>> if anybody know how the system needs to be configured, so that jackd

>> runs with this option on, it might be nice if you told us.

>>

>> if we really get kernels with this turned on soon, we better be prepared.

>

> In fact, isn't cgroups incompatible with realtime scheduling? Not

> quite sure where I'm quoting that from but I vaguely recall something

> like that.

Cgroups (using the 'Ubuntu'-style workaround mentioned in the original article)

+ realtime scheduling works here, on Gentoo, kernel 2.6.34-r12, but needs a

little extra configuration in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf, please see here

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK#Kernel_Configuration
JR
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