a new version against recent 2.4 kernels of my multimedia-lowlatency patchset is now available. These patches are the 2.4-adapted versions of my 2.2 lowlatency patch, which project has now reached an age of 1.5+ years. the lowlatency patch against 2.4.0-ac6 can also be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/lowlatency-patches/lowlatency-2.4.0-ac6-A2 the lowlatency patch against 2.4.1-pre2 can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/lowlatency-patches/lowlatency-2.4.1-A2 this patch still follows the 'take no prisoners' approach, is optimized on x86 but should work on other platforms as well. The patch uses assembly speedups and offline assembly sections to minimize the impact of conditional schedule points as much as possible. This is the reason why this patch does not offer a configuration option. The patch changes lowlevel x86 assembly routines too, to make them perform with lower latency. on a 500 MHz 1-CPU box typical latencies during 'everyday work', with this patch applied are 0.1 msec or less, under high load i've measured a maximum latency was 0.3 millisec. The patch fixes latencies generated by intense X sessions, high block IO and networking load and lots of user-space processes load as well, and other more unusual latency sources. I tested every latency source i could think of, the patch tries to be a 'complete solution' and tries to squash all latency sources larger than 0.5 msecs on a typical system. bugreports, comments, suggestions and contributions welcome! Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
