Has anyone out there tried grabbing video after applying Andrew Morton's low latency kernel patch, which is available at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/schedlat.html? I have just patched my 2.4.5-xfs kernel and the patch seems to have potential for video capturing applications. It definitely seems to improve capturing uncompressed video with xawtv's streamer -- I seem to be able to capture at a higher resolution now without losing many frames. In addition, other activity seems to have less effect on a process which is capturing video. I remember that there was a lot of debate about Ingo Molnar's 2.2 series patches. Linus seemed to think they were an ugly solution, though Ingo claimed they were effective. Has there been a similar discussion about Andrew's 2.4 patch? I don't remember seeing anything on the Linux kernel mailing list. -- Mike :wq
