Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261596AbUJ0AyB (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:54:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261583AbUJ0AyA (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Received: from relay00.pair.com ([209.68.1.20]:34573 "HELO relay.pair.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261557AbUJ0Axg (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:53:36 -0400 X-pair-Authenticated: 66.190.53.4 Message-ID: <417EF18D.8010207@cybsft.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:53:33 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar 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 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> <20041027002455.GC31852@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20041027002455.GC31852@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1346 Lines: 35 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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 > Sure will. It's building on two of the systems now (V0.3.1). kr - 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/