Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:09:03 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Re-tune x86 uaccess code for PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY |
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On 08/09/2013 10:55 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: >> >> Now, here is a bigger question: shouldn't we be deprecating/getting rid >> of PREEMPT_VOUNTARY in favor of PREEMPT? > > I sure hope not, PREEMPT munches throughput. If you need PREEMPT, seems > to me what you _really_ need is PREEMPT_RT (the real deal), so > eventually depreciating PREEMPT makes more sense to me. >
Do you have any quantification of "munches throughput?" It seems odd that it would be worse than polling for preempt all over the kernel, but perhaps the additional locking is what costs.
-hpa
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