Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RT patch acceptance | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 24 May 2005 22:26:16 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@mvista.com> wrote: > > > > I think people would find their system responsiveness / tunability > > goes up tremendously, if you drop just a few unimportant IRQs into > > threads. > > People cannot detect the difference between 1000usec and 50usec latencies, > so they aren't going to notice any changes in responsiveness at all.
The IDE IRQ handler can in fact run for several ms, which people sure can detect.
Lee
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