Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262256AbVEYDYw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 23:24:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262255AbVEYDYw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 23:24:52 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:58970 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262257AbVEYDYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2005 23:24:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4293EFE8.1080106@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:24:24 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Debian/1.7.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell CC: Andrew Morton , Sven Dietrich , dwalker@mvista.com, bhuey@lnxw.com, mingo@elte.hu, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance References: <4292DFC3.3060108@yahoo.com.au> <20050524081517.GA22205@elte.hu> <4292E559.3080302@yahoo.com.au> <20050524090240.GA13129@elte.hu> <4292F074.7010104@yahoo.com.au> <1116957953.31174.37.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20050524224157.GA17781@nietzsche.lynx.com> <1116978244.19926.41.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20050525001019.GA18048@nietzsche.lynx.com> <1116981913.19926.58.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20050525005942.GA24893@nietzsche.lynx.com> <1116982977.19926.63.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <20050524184351.47d1a147.akpm@osdl.org> <4293DCB1.8030904@mvista.com> <20050524192029.2ef75b89.akpm@osdl.org> <1116987976.2912.110.camel@mindpipe> In-Reply-To: <1116987976.2912.110.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 29 Lee Revell wrote: >On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>Sven Dietrich wrote: >> >>>I think people would find their system responsiveness / tunability >>> goes up tremendously, if you drop just a few unimportant IRQs into >>> threads. >>> >>People cannot detect the difference between 1000usec and 50usec latencies, >>so they aren't going to notice any changes in responsiveness at all. >> > >The IDE IRQ handler can in fact run for several ms, which people sure >can detect. > > Are you serious? Even at 10ms, the monitor refresh rate would have to be over 100Hz for anyone to "notice" anything, right?... What sort of numbers are you talking when you say several? Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/