* Ingo Molnar wrote: > the BKL can generate arbitrary latencies. Anything up to 100-200 > milliseconds. Rui, Florian, could you try the quick hack below? hm, this alone probably wont work, because the audio layer does unlock_kernel() in many places. could you try another hack in addition to the ioctl.c hack, save the attached script, and do this in your Linux source tree: cd sound ~/changeall-tree "unlock_kernel()" "" ~/changeall-tree "lock_kernel()" "" (in strictly this order.) This gets rid of the BKL from the sound subsystem in quite drastic ways... Totally untested, so be careful ... Ingo