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SubjectRe: [PATCH RT] convert RCU Preempt tasklet into softirq.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:16:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:51 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > There might still be an issue here. With the patch I'm getting a really
> > slow response time on networking. But that be because of other patches I
> > have applied.
>
> I removed this patch and I can still get the network slowdown/hang. So
> this patch is unrelated to this issue. RCU on the otherhand has not been
> cleared of suspicion.

Might the slowdown be due to different kernel threads running at different
priorities? I could easily believe that changing the priority of the
kernel thread processing RCU callbacks could have a noticeable effect
on performance in some cases.

In other news, passed a set of kernbenches at this end, so starting
an rcutorture.

Thanx, Paul
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