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Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 17:09:49 -0800
From: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
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Subject: Re: latency & real-time-ness.
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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
>
>>Would the low-latency patch help me?
>>
>
>Yes
>
It might be very difficult to fix up the
low latency patch for the latest -ac,
but the mini-low-latency patch should
go right in - that should fix the worst
of it, and I've run 2.4.19-pre2-ac1 with
the mini low-latency patch.

It's part of the -aa patch collection, just
look for "00_lowlatency-fixes-4" or so.

Joe



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