Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:04:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P5 |
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* K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i've uploaded the -P5 patch: > > > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/voluntary-preempt/voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P5 > > > <snip> > > I have been running the voluntary-preempt patches on one of my slower > (450) servers at home. The question is would latency traces from such > a slow system be useful to you in this testing. About the most load > that gets generated on this system, usually, is compiling the kernel > or a very large app. that I do development on. What I tend to do to > load the system is just run the stress-kernel suite and sometimes > Andrew's amlat program to provide RT scheduling pressure. > > If this would be useful, let me know as I have an interest in seeing > latencies reduced as much as possible. I am building with the -P5 > patch right now. If it would be more useful to try this on a faster > system or to stess the system in a different manner, I could do that > as well.
sure, all traces are interesting! On your system the latencies will be a bit larger than on others, but that's all - the maximum latency points should be the same (or similar) critical sections. So it's just as useful as the other traces.
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