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SubjectRe: a joint letter on low latency and Linux
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Dan Hollis writes:
> > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > We should always fix bugs, and fix stupid drivers. No question. We
> > > should always seek to reduce latencies (as long as we don't kill
> > > overall performance).
> > So is N>=4000 a bug or feature? Should it be fixed?
> I have no idea. Where is this huge N coming from? Has anyone done the
> analysis to determine what's contributing to this big N, and whether
> or not it's fixable?

benno measured N>=4000, not sure where its coming from

I know we cant get it in 100% of cases (say broken hardware) but in the
case of known *good* hardware configurations is N<=5 a reasonable target?

Right now even with known "good" hardware we are lucky to get N<=200

At the very least we should keep a list of known bad hardware with
the reasoning behind it (eg ps2 mouse?)

I suspect if people start looking there may be clean ways to deal with
"bad" hardware and still get good latency without convoluted kernel code.

-Dan


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