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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 15:43:14 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Alan Cox wrote:

>>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


Can someone expound slightly on this?


> 
> 
>>Would the low-latency patch help me?
>>
> 
> Yes


Excellent, I'm compiling that now....

Thanks,
Ben



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