(Michael, I hope you will be able to make a frontpage news item out of this one
)
I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called "BFS":
http://lwn.net/Articles/350100
Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with it here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/350820
If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to give that one a try. In my case, it helped immensely, especially with sound latency and skips and other artifacts during real-time playback (I was not using an RT kernel before that though). Note that BFS has been updated to 0.205 since I wrote that.
The patch to kernel 2.6.30 and docs can be found at:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs
Edit:
206 was a regression and has been pulled again. If anyone is going to try this, use 205. If you tried 206 (and experienced the extreme stalls) use 205 instead.

I recently stumbled upon an LWN article that mentioned Con Kolivas is working on a new kernel scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs called "BFS":
http://lwn.net/Articles/350100
Well, I've tried it. I wrote my experiences with it here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/350820
If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to give that one a try. In my case, it helped immensely, especially with sound latency and skips and other artifacts during real-time playback (I was not using an RT kernel before that though). Note that BFS has been updated to 0.205 since I wrote that.
The patch to kernel 2.6.30 and docs can be found at:
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs
Edit:
206 was a regression and has been pulled again. If anyone is going to try this, use 205. If you tried 206 (and experienced the extreme stalls) use 205 instead.
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