Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:30:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux |
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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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