On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> writes:
>
> >Also note that if there are specific drivers that violate the latency
> >timing but the kernel itself is good, then there will be a case of "if you
> >need <5ms latency don't use a NE2000 card" or IDE drive or whatever.
Please feel free to nail me if it is wrong, but make you case strong.
> >I am not listing this as a problem as much as a reality that will arise
> >and an aswer to the suggestion that if the kernel can't be made perfect
> >it's not worth doing
>
> its worth noting that this is precisely what Be say about the
> BeOS. there is at least one driver (for a gaming joystick) that is
> known to destroy the low latency figures for the kernel.
>
> thats OK by me, if its documented and made public ("if you are doing
> low latency stuff, do NOT use the foobar-XYZ module because ...").
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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