Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:43:45 +0100,
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:20:17PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > also, the total buffer underrun/overrun problem doesn't happen *so*
> > often (except for the heavy i/o load, etc).
> 
> you mean because the disk has not enough bandwidth to read the file,
> right? (not scheduler related)

it's just my general opinion judging from the bug reports from ALSA
users.  the i/o load has more influence than scheduler-senstive
loads.  i think i can test the "pseudo" interactivity with the latency
test program running as a normal user.  i'll try it tonight.


Takashi
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