Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:20:57 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: RT patch acceptance
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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 01:17, Nick Piggin wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 22:20, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@mvista.com> 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.
>>
>>Excuse me?
>
>You are excused ;)
>
>> 1 second (1000 usecs, 200 times your 50 usec example) is
>
>1000usecs is 1msec.

Duh, my mistake. And it probably wouldn't do to plead alzheimers 
either, darn.

[...]

>This is a topic that for some reason will tend to degenerate into a
> random shouting match where nobody actually says anything or
> listens to anything, and nothing gets done. Not to say you are
> trying to start a flamewar, Gene, but everyone just needs to tread
> a bit carefully :)

Duely chastised.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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