Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261501AbVAKUAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:00:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262409AbVAKUAk (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:00:40 -0500 Received: from mail.joq.us ([67.65.12.105]:64931 "EHLO sulphur.joq.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261501AbVAKT4P (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:56:15 -0500 To: Matt Mackall Cc: Chris Wright , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Lee Revell , paul@linuxaudiosystems.com, arjanv@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM References: <200501071620.j07GKrIa018718@localhost.localdomain> <1105132348.20278.88.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050107134941.11cecbfc.akpm@osdl.org> <20050107221059.GA17392@infradead.org> <20050107142920.K2357@build.pdx.osdl.net> <87mzvkxxck.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050110212019.GG2995@waste.org> <87d5wc9gx1.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <20050111195010.GU2940@waste.org> From: "Jack O'Quin" Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:57:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20050111195010.GU2940@waste.org> (Matt Mackall's message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:50:10 -0800") Message-ID: <871xcr3fjc.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1247 Lines: 27 Matt Mackall writes: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:30:50AM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: >> "Near-RT" is about the most useless concept I've heard of in a long >> time. It sounds like the answer to a question nobody asked. ;-) > > To my way of thinking, it's a pretty good description of Ingo's work > or anything you're ever going to see on a PC. If you think you're > going to get real hard RT performance on your off-the-shelf x86 box > running a conventional OS, you are fooling yourself. > > Thankfully a buffer underrun is no more fatal for pro audio than a > broken guitar string. CDs skip, DATs glitch, XLR cables flake out, > circuit breakers trip, amps clip, Powerbooks crash, and the show goes > on. I've done more than enough stage tech to know it's a huge pain in > the ass, but let's stop pretending we require absolute perfection, > please. In _practice_, Ingo's patches are considerably better than what you seem to consider "good enough for mere audio work". -- joq - 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/