Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:03:11 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       mjy@geizhals.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 06:51:11AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I may have missed one of his posts where he gave the results from the
> RT test suite. I found a list of functions with some kind of numbers,
> though I didn't see a description of what those numbers were and was
> looking for something more detailed (e.g. the output of the RT
> instrumentation things he had with and without preempt). This is all
> mostly curiosity and sort of hoping this gets carried out vaguely
> scientifically anyway, so I'm not really arguing one way or the other.

agreed. what I've seen so far is a great number of graphs, they were
scientific enough for my needs and covering real life different
workloads, but I'm not sure what Takashi published exactly, you may want
to discuss it with him.
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