Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261624AbUJ0AYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:24:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261577AbUJ0AYT (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:24:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:24488 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261581AbUJ0AXr (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:23:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:24:55 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: "K.R. Foley" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Revell , Rui Nuno Capela , Mark_H_Johnson@Raytheon.com, Bill Huey , Adam Heath , Florian Schmidt , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Schmidt , Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano , Alexander Batyrshin Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-mm1-V0 Message-ID: <20041027002455.GC31852@elte.hu> References: <20041019180059.GA23113@elte.hu> <20041020094508.GA29080@elte.hu> <20041021132717.GA29153@elte.hu> <20041022133551.GA6954@elte.hu> <20041022155048.GA16240@elte.hu> <20041022175633.GA1864@elte.hu> <20041025104023.GA1960@elte.hu> <417D4B5E.4010509@cybsft.com> <20041025203807.GB27865@elte.hu> <417E2CB7.4090608@cybsft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417E2CB7.4090608@cybsft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1239 Lines: 28 * K.R. Foley wrote: > Several things in regard to V0.2: > > 1) Interactive responsiveness seems to be noticably sluggish at times on > all three of the systems I have tested this on. > 2) My 450MHz UP system is definitely the worst by far. Scrolling through > the syslog in a telnet session produces pauses every few seconds for > about a second, that is while it's still responding. These problems seem > to be network related, but there are no indications of what the problem > is. This system also at times will just stop responding to network requests. > 3) Both of the SMP systems are lacking the snappy responsiveness in X > that I have become accustomed to with previous patches, but the 2.6GHz > Xeon (w/HT) is worse than the 933MHz Xeon. Again no indications of > problems in the logs. > 4) Using amlat to run the RTC at 1kHz will kill any of these systems > very quickly. could you try this with -V0.3 too? I believe most of these problems should be solved. Ingo - 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/