Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-0 | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:47:58 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 22:18 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i've been thinking about it on and off. If you would/could try it that > would certainly help. RT for Linux is a dance of many small steps. > > the two projects are obviously complementary and i have no intention to > reinvent the wheel in any way. Best would be to bring hires timers up to > upstream-mergable state (independently of the -RT patch) and ask Andrew > to include it in -mm, then i'd port -RT to it automatically.
OK, I'll give this a shot. It would certainly help on my underpowered EPIA system, where my tests show 2.1% residency for the timer ISR with HZ=1000. On a system like this I would expect the difference to be perceptible with a regular desktop workload.
Lee
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