Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267512AbUIBHER (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:04:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267602AbUIBHEQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:04:16 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:1964 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267512AbUIBHEP (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 03:04:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q8 From: Lee Revell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com, "K.R. Foley" , linux-kernel , Felipe Alfaro Solana , Daniel Schmitt , alsa-devel In-Reply-To: <20040902065549.GA18860@elte.hu> References: <20040902063335.GA17657@elte.hu> <20040902065549.GA18860@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094108653.11364.26.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 03:04:14 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1187 Lines: 31 On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:55, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i've released the -Q8 patch: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q8 > > ontop of: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/diff-bk-040828-2.6.8.1.bz2 > Here are traces of a 145, 190, and 217 usec latencies in netif_receive_skb: http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-Q6#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-Q6/trace2.txt http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-Q6#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-Q6/trace3.txt http://krustophenia.net/testresults.php?dataset=2.6.9-rc1-Q6#/var/www/2.6.9-rc1-Q6/trace4.txt Some of these are with ip_conntrack enabled, at the request of another poster, this does not make much of a difference, it increases the worst case latency by 20 usec or so. Also there is the rt_garbage_collect issue, previously reported. I have not seen this lately but I do not remember seeing that it was fixed. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/