Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269435AbUICJJ5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269437AbUICJIw (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:08:52 -0400 Received: from eta.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.50]:51347 "EHLO eta.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269349AbUICJDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:03:46 -0400 To: Lee Revell Cc: Ingo Molnar , Eric St-Laurent , linux-kernel , "K.R. Foley" , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Daniel Schmitt , Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com, "P.O. Gaillard" , nando@ccrma.stanford.edu, luke@audioslack.com Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-R0 References: <20040902065549.GA18860@elte.hu> <20040902111003.GA4256@elte.hu> <20040902215728.GA28571@elte.hu> <1094162812.1347.54.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040902221402.GA29434@elte.hu> <1094171082.19760.7.camel@krustophenia.net> <1094181447.4815.6.camel@orbiter> <1094192788.19760.47.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040903063658.GA11801@elte.hu> <1094194157.19760.71.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040903070500.GB13100@elte.hu> <1094197233.19760.115.camel@krustophenia.net> <87acw7bxkh.fsf@agnula.org> <1094198755.19760.133.camel@krustophenia.net> From: Free Ekanayaka Organization: AGNULA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:05:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1094198755.19760.133.camel@krustophenia.net> (Lee Revell's message of "Fri, 03 Sep 2004 04:05:55 -0400") Message-ID: <877jrbiuxs.fsf@agnula.org> User-Agent: T-gnus/6.15.7 (based on Oort Gnus v0.08) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (i386-debian-linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2739 Lines: 53 |--==> "LR" == Lee Revell writes: LR> On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 03:50, Free Ekanayaka wrote: LR> As far as I am concerned the VP patches are stable enough for the LR> audio-centric distros to start distributing VP kernel packages, these LR> will certainly be using the vanilla kernel. I think the PlanetCCRMA and LR> AGNULA people are planning to start distributing test VP-kernel packages LR> as soon as the patches stabilize. IIRC Nando is on vacation this week. >> LR> I will make an announcement on LAD that as of R0 the VP patches should LR> be stable and are ready for wider testing. You may want to wait until LR> after the initial slew of bug reports before rebasing VP against MM. I LR> suspect most of the problems with be driver specific, and most of the LR> fixes will apply equally to -mm and vanilla. >> LR> I have added Luke (AudioSlack), Free (AGNULA), and Nando (CCRMA) to the LR> cc: list. They would be in the best position to answer your question. >> >>Yes, you're right. We plan to provide test 2.6.x packages as soon as >>patches stabilise. Please let me know if you have some recommendation >>(configuration flags, additional patches, etc.). >> LR> As of -R0 it's definitely stable on UP and SMP users are reporting the LR> same. All known problems should be fixed, and there are no known LR> regressions. You should probably post a UP version and have your users LR> test that before posting SMP packages, the latter are not quite as well LR> tested. LR> No other patches (ie various scheduler tweaks, CK) should be necessary, LR> and in fact are not recommended because they might mask latency issues LR> that we would rather fix. LR> I use Debian unstable which should be pretty close to AGNULA, and for LR> several weeks now I have been unable to produce an xrun in jack at 32 LR> frames no matter what I throw at the machine. I actually have not had LR> xrun debugging enabled in weeks because I don't get any xruns. LR> Any problems at this point are most likely going to involve less common LR> hardware, stuff the LKML testers don't have. A/DeMuDi is based on a sarge snapshot (currently 17 July.. time to shift forward!), plus some bits of sid (especially up to date audio packages). Which kernel tree are you using? Have you built your kernel starting from the stock kernel-source-2.6.8 package along with the relevant debian patch? Cheers, Free - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/