Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jun 2001 10:38:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | William Montgomery <> | Subject | lowlatency 2.2.19 |
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I am testing Ingo's lowlatency patch on the 2.2.19 kernel and have a strange problem. I applied the most recent patch I could find, lowlatency-2.2.16-A0 and fixed a few failed hunks. The kernel appears stable after many (~24) hours of stress testing with Benno's latencytest suite and others. The scheduling jitter is usually under 1msec with spikes up to 2.5msec on my system - UP PIII 700MHz, 129MRam, 20G SCSI.
In order to locate the spikes I built another kernel; applying Andrea's ikd patch. I applied the most recent I could find, 2.2.18pre15aa1-ikd1 and fixed a few failed hunks. I then applied the lowlatency patch over that and started testing. Strangely, the big spikes dissappeared. Either the ikd patch has fixed some kernel latency or the timing has changed to obscure longer latency paths through the kernel. Again the testing was performed continuously over a 24 hour period and this time no spikes over 1msec were observed.
Anyone have any ideas?
Wm
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