Am Dienstag, 4. April 2006 16:46 schrieb Andreas Mohr: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:36:06AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:34, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > > And this all should work perfectly well with NON-soft-realtime > > > scheduling, as clearly said before. > > > Well, in theory, at least... > > > > Andi just out of interest, how does normal scheduling on current ck > > (2.6.16-ck3) perform with this? > > Hmm, difficult :-\ > I don't have any game candidate here, and frankly I don't even have a > current Wine install... > No need for a full-blown game, I use this great free 5.9MB demo to test audio on Wine: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18359
Unbearable with regular Wine (kernel 2.6.13/ amd64, gentoo r5 patchset - can't test with later kernels, as there's a problem with the SCSI-subsystem as of 2.6.14), just dandy with Mikes patch and realtime-lsm... > I'd think it's much easier for someone with such a Wine testcase to use a > new kernel: > - locate the .config file of the currently installed kernel package > - get 2.6.16, patch to 2.6.16-ck3 > - run "make oldconfig" to answer all differences from current kernel > to 2.6.16-ck3 only > - make bzImage modules modules_install > - (update bootloader) > > About my sys call preemption latency rantings: > It would be very useful to experiment with various CONFIG_PREEMPT settings > here. And if some anomalies turn up, then it might be useful to add Ingo > Molnar's latency tracing patch to a kernel and debug it further. > > Stuff like that really shouldn't happen given that many people (among > those also Windows core developers) say that our scheduling and thread > creation performance usually beats Windows XP hands down. > > Andreas -- Willie Sippel //////// | Tritium Studios // | ______________________________ //// /// | http://www.tritium-studios.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
