Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262255AbVCHXqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:46:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262269AbVCHXk7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:40:59 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:55687 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262206AbVCHXeT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:34:19 -0500 Subject: 2.6.11 low latency audio test results From: Lee Revell To: linux-kernel Cc: Ingo Molnar , "Jack O'Quin" , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:34:06 -0500 Message-Id: <1110324852.6510.11.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1450 Lines: 40 OK, I have run some simple tests with JACK, Hydrogen, and 2.6.11. 2.6.11 does not seem to be much of an improvement over 2.6.10. It may in fact be slightly worse. This was what I expected, as it appears that a number of latency fixes in the VM got preempted by the 4-level page tables merge. At 32 frames (0.667 ms latency) I get an xrun about every 10-20 seconds, just running JACK and Hydrogen. At 64 frames (1.33 ms latency) it's better, but I can easily cause massive xruns with "dbench 32". At 128 frames (2.66 ms) it seems to work pretty well. Overall, this puts us about even with Windows XP, and somewhat worse than Mac OS X. Of course all of the above settings provide flawless xrun-free performance with 2.6.11-rc4 + PREEMPT_RT. Until Ingo releases the RT preempt patch for 2.6.11, I can't provide details, because the vanilla kernel lacks sufficient instrumentation. But the above results should help us move in the right direction. Given the above results, and the performance of the RT patched kernel, I don't see why 2.6.12 should not be able to solidly outperform Windows and Mac in this area. See the "Latency regressions" thread for some areas that might need attention. Lee - 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/