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Gene Heskett wrote: >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 22:20, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@mvista.com> wrote: >> >>>I think people would find their system responsiveness / tunability >>> goes up tremendously, if you drop just a few unimportant IRQs >>>into threads. >>> >>People cannot detect the difference between 1000usec and 50usec >>latencies, so they aren't going to notice any changes in >>responsiveness at all. >> > >Excuse me? > You are excused ;) > 1 second (1000 usecs, 200 times your 50 usec example) is > 1000usecs is 1msec. >VERY noticeable when you are listening to music, or worse yet, trying >to edit it. For much of that, submillisecond accuracy makes or >breaks the application. > > For listening to music, 1msec is absolutely no problem. For editing, perhaps it is getting problematic. But Andrew (and parent) were not talking about realtime applications, but *interactivity*. >Lets get out of the server only camp here folks, linux is used for a >hell of a lot more than a home for apache. > Let's all try to keep calm and think carefully about what someone has said and in what context before responding. This is a topic that for some reason will tend to degenerate into a random shouting match where nobody actually says anything or listens to anything, and nothing gets done. Not to say you are trying to start a flamewar, Gene, but everyone just needs to tread a bit carefully :) Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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