Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750791AbWCVC1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:27:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750826AbWCVC1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:27:18 -0500 Received: from mxsf01.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.201]:9380 "EHLO mxsf01.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbWCVC1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:27:18 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.03,116,1141621200"; d="scan'208"; a="917917492:sNHT58316154" Message-ID: <4420B5F0.6000201@cybsft.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:26:56 -0600 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rt1 References: <20060320085137.GA29554@elte.hu> <441F8017.4040302@cybsft.com> <20060321211653.GA3090@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060321211653.GA3090@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 972 Lines: 29 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * K.R. Foley wrote: > >> I haven't had a chance to look into it yet but this combination brings >> with it a significant latency regression, at least as measured by the >> rtc histogram stuff. > > can you also measure it via rtc_wakeup, a'ka: > > chrt -f -p 98 `pidof 'IRQ 8'` > ./rtc_wakeup -f 8192 -t 100000 > > ? I have just tried it, and -rt4 looks pretty good on the latency front > (with all debugging disabled). > > Ingo > Sorry I have been onsite and completely buried today. Am running an initial test on both UP and SMP now with 2.6.16-rt1. UP doesn't look bad at all. SMP on the other hand doesn't look so good. I will give -rt4 a spin when these are done. -- 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/