A feature for -lowlatency kernel?

Ricardo Lameiro ricardolameiro at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 21:46:37 UTC 2011


I would gladly try it and if it works ok with my setup use it. I use
Firewire with an onboard chipset so maybe better IRQ handling would
help :D
when you have it out please let us now :D
Thanks for your work man.

cheers

 2011/3/24 Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani at ubuntu.com>:
> Dear Ubuntu Studio Developers,
>
> Yesterday Ailo has reported in IRC channel that the 2.6.39 mainline
> Linux kernel is going to provide an useful and interesting feature:
> threaded irqs.
>
> Until now that feature was provided by realtime kernels only. It is
> the piece of code that permit to prioritize hardware interrupts which
> is very useful thing when you have a firewire/usb device. I think that
> we should have it for Natty.
>
> So I could provide a -lowlatency kernel based on 39 kernel if enough
> testers will offer theirs help. Sincerely I would want avoid to waste
> time for make something that no one will use.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Ciao,
> Alessio
>
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