>I'm thinking for the benefits that low latency audio applications will >have from preemption of running task in favour of the waiting task just >at end of interrupt handler execution (instead of end of time slice). > >I don't believe that such a mechanism is already in place in linux >kernel but I may be wrong.
i think that there is such code in the LL patches. the return to user space codepath does a conditional_schedule() there. i think. if not, it was a feature of ingo's original LL patch series. --p _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel