Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Sean McNamara
I just wanted to clarify that Ubuntu (like other distros) has different kernel flavors. Very roughly summarized, here are the main differences I could discern between the different kernel flavors on Ubuntu. This is based on Jaunty (9.04) which is currently in late alpha/early beta, but I have also

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Mark Greenwood
On Monday 23 February 2009 17:42:44 Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 16:31 did gyre and gimble: > > On Mon, 23.02.09 10:14, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > > >> 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 02:05 did gyre and > >> gimble

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 16:31 did gyre and gimble: On Mon, 23.02.09 10:14, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 02:05 did gyre and gimble: OpenSUSE apparently does not enable it. The same is true for Ubuntu. Sam

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.09 10:14, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 02:05 did gyre and gimble: >> OpenSUSE apparently does not enable it. The same is true for >> Ubuntu. Same for Debian. Note sure about Mandriva. > > Here is a (not quite curren

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.02.09 09:07, Rémi Cardona (r...@gentoo.org) wrote: > Le 23/02/2009 03:05, Lennart Poettering a écrit : >> Not sure about >> Gentoo (they'll probably use -funroll-loops instead because it makes >> things faster or so ;-)) > > Actually, we don't really recommend anything in that area (use

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Ozan Çağlayan
Colin Guthrie wrote On 23-02-2009 12:14: > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 02:05 did gyre and > gimble: >> OpenSUSE apparently does not enable it. The same is true for >> Ubuntu. Same for Debian. Note sure about Mandriva. > > I'll ask our kernel team why PREEMPT is not on as I'v

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 23/02/09 02:05 did gyre and gimble: OpenSUSE apparently does not enable it. The same is true for Ubuntu. Same for Debian. Note sure about Mandriva. Here is a (not quite current) grep from my running kernel (it's .27 as .28/.29 both break my intel graphi

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Ozan Çağlayan
Rémi Cardona wrote On 23-02-2009 10:07: > Le 23/02/2009 03:05, Lennart Poettering a écrit : >> Not sure about >> Gentoo (they'll probably use -funroll-loops instead because it makes >> things faster or so ;-)) > > Actually, we don't really recommend anything in that area (users build > their own k

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 23/02/2009 03:05, Lennart Poettering a écrit : Not sure about Gentoo (they'll probably use -funroll-loops instead because it makes things faster or so ;-)) Actually, we don't really recommend anything in that area (users build their own kernel, if it breaks, it's their own damn fault). So h

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Distribution kernels and glitch-free (Packagers, read this!)

2009-02-23 Thread Ozan Çağlayan
Lennart Poettering wrote On 23-02-2009 04:05: > > Yes, you can use alsa-time-test for this. When you run it it will spin > in a busy loop always querying system and sound card time. The first > column contains the system time in µs. Simply calculate the difference > between subsequent lines. If th