Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:55:39 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: queue_work from interrupt Real time preemption2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-03 |
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* Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> BTW: > > My work on this has been mostly in the context of a 2.6 kernel based > generalization of a softIRQ as thread patch for 2.4 that enables > priority tuning of the bottom half processing as well as /proc support > for turning on and off the feature. We got it to work. > > However; I don't know what good workloads and metrics to measure the > goodness of the work look like. If folks think priority tuning of > bottom half processing is worth persuing and can help me quantify its > effectiveness better than running a jitter test while doing a BONNIE > test run on a SCSI JBOD, then I'm happy to do more with this.
anything that generates a consistent interrupt rate is pretty good for testing. Networking is the most softirq-dependent code, so i'd say tbench over a real network ought to be a good benchmark.
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