pulse-rt by default?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 08:54:50 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:46:18PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> pulseaudio priority will likely just result in client buffers running
> dry anyway. Is there anything in place to take care of the priority
> inversion problem? I know jackd/jacklib has some scheduling magic in
> it...

And on a lot of hardware the problem in the X server locking the bus up
anyway not the kernel scheduler. The intel driver developed that bad habit
between FC8 and FC9. Nothing the kernel can do if the PCI bus is being
hogged by another device so much the buffers drain.

Alan




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