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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:30:07 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: Ingo Molnar and Con Kolivas 2.6 scheduler patches
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Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:56, Timothy Miller wrote:
> 

> 
>>interactive processing in the desired time.  I don't think we should be
>>making scheduler tweaks to fix this corner case because it's impossible
>>to fix, no?
> 
> 
> Your concerns are well founded. However neither Ingo nor I (and all the other 
> contributors) are trying to make an audio app scheduler. At some stage a 
> modification will be made to the mainline kernel which will have adequate 
> audio performance in many (but not all) settings, and more importantly be 
> fair and interactive.
> 


For this case, I wasn't concerned with audio but with any combination of 
interactive tasks.  That is, if you have enough interactive tasks going 
on on a slow machine, you're going to get audio skips and other 
interactivity problems and just have to live with it.


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