Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:51:53 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc3-mm1-V0.7.33-0 |
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* Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 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.
a warning: it's probably quite complex merging work - while the two projects work on different conceptual issues, they touch the same code.
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