Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Ost
On 11/2/10 10:06 AM, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Michael Ostm...@museresearch.com wrote: Hi list, I am seeing what appears to be a 4 - 7 usec context switch time on a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo machine with the 2.6 kernel, and 10 - 15 usecs on a 1.66 GHz Atom. Is that reasonable?

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost m...@museresearch.com wrote: I asked Alexandre Julliard, the maintainer of the Wine project, about the libfst approach, and thought this list might be interested in his response. - Michael Ost First message (nov 8) when asked for a read on the

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost m...@museresearch.com wrote: I asked Alexandre Julliard, the maintainer of the Wine project, about the libfst approach, and thought this list might be interested in his

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Tim E. Real
Hi, thanks for this thread, I've been wanting to learn more about how we could use (the newer) fst in our MusE for example. I was not sure how to make MusE a wine app, though, as I was told to do. Besides getting it to compile as a wine app, are there any major tasks, traps, and conversions to

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, thanks for this thread, I've been wanting to learn more  about how we could use (the newer) fst in our MusE for example. I was not sure how to make MusE a wine app, though, as I was told to do. Besides getting it to

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Tim E. Real
On November 10, 2010 01:58:55 pm you wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: Hi, thanks for this thread, I've been wanting to learn more about how we could use (the newer) fst in our MusE for example. I was not sure how to make MusE a wine app,

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: MusE already fully supported the old fst, so we've got code which I hope  would put us ahead of the game. i don't believe that torben i ever released the wine-as-a-library version of FST, so there effectively is no old

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Tim E. Real
On November 10, 2010 04:20:02 pm you wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: MusE already fully supported the old fst, so we've got code which I hope would put us ahead of the game. i don't believe that torben i ever released the wine-as-a-library

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: On November 10, 2010 04:20:02 pm you wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: MusE already fully supported the old fst, so we've got code which I hope  would put us ahead of the

[LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Ost
Hi list, I am seeing what appears to be a 4 - 7 usec context switch time on a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo machine with the 2.6 kernel, and 10 - 15 usecs on a 1.66 GHz Atom. Is that reasonable? Does anyone have any tips on how to speed that up, if possible? The background is that I have two apps ---

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Michael Ost m...@museresearch.com wrote: Hi list, I am seeing what appears to be a 4 - 7 usec context switch time on a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo machine with the 2.6 kernel, and 10 - 15 usecs on a 1.66 GHz Atom. Is that reasonable? Does anyone have any tips on how to

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Ost
Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Michael Ost m...@museresearch.com wrote: Hi list, I am seeing what appears to be a 4 - 7 usec context switch time on a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo machine with the 2.6 kernel, and 10 - 15 usecs on a 1.66 GHz Atom. Is that reasonable? Does anyone have any

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-02 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:17:30AM -0700, Michael Ost wrote: Ah, so no magic bullet then! %) This makes sense. Thanks for your response. One thing to look at is if you really need all those context switches. That would be the case only if all the VST plugins are in series and there is some

Re: [LAD] Faster context switch

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Ost
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:17:30AM -0700, Michael Ost wrote: Ah, so no magic bullet then! %) This makes sense. Thanks for your response. One thing to look at is if you really need all those context switches. That would be the case only if all the VST plugins are