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Subject: Re: latency & real-time-ness.
To: greearb@candelatech.com (Ben Greear)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:55:59 +0000 (GMT)
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> I'm running the program at nice -18.
> So, what kind of things can I do to decrease the latency?

Hack up the ksoftirq stuff to only fall back to ksoftirqd after about
500 iterations instead of one is one little detail to deal with

> Would the low-latency patch help me?

Yes
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