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Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)

Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)

Posted Oct 14, 2009 2:50 UTC (Wed) by alankila (subscriber, #47141)
In reply to: Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO) by paulj
Parent article: Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)

Hey, good point. It is already being done. Looks like floating point processing runs with pre-emption disabled. It could still be harmful for latency/realtime work, unless done in small chunks or something. (Source: asm/i387.h, kernel_fpu_begin().)


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