From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
mjy@geizhals.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:14:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040320121423.GA9009@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319050948.GN2045@holomorphy.com>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:09:48PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:17:47PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Technically, I think preempt can still reduce maximum latency
> > depending on whether the time between explicit resched checks
> > is greater than the (small) scheduling overhead that preempt
> > adds.
> > But yeah, that would be in the noise compared with long
> > preempt-off regions.
> > I'm not sure about applications, but maybe some soft-realtime
> > things like audio software benefit from a lower average latency
> > (I don't know).
>
> Someone really needs to get numbers on this stuff.
Takashi already did it and we know it doesn't reduce the maximum latency.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-20 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-18 4:00 CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads Marinos J. Yannikos
2004-03-18 5:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 6:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 9:50 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 14:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 15:34 ` Robert Love
2004-03-18 16:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 17:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 17:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 18:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 18:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 18:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 19:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 17:48 ` Robert Love
2004-03-18 18:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 10:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-19 2:17 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20040319050948.GN2045@holomorphy.com>
2004-03-20 12:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-03-20 14:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 15:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 15:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-24 13:57 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-24 14:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-24 15:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-18 15:20 ` Tom Sightler
2004-03-18 15:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 23:54 ` Tom Sightler
2004-03-18 15:39 ` Robert Love
2004-03-18 15:28 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 15:40 ` Robert Love
2004-03-18 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 19:08 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 19:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 19:20 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 19:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 19:50 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 19:24 ` Robert Love
2004-03-19 22:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-19 22:12 ` Robert Love
2004-03-24 15:00 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 19:16 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-18 19:29 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 19:48 ` Chris Mason
2004-03-19 11:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-19 13:46 ` Chris Mason
2004-03-19 14:06 ` Takashi Iwai
[not found] ` <20040318221006.74246648.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-03-19 10:30 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-23 9:14 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-19 17:22 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-19 18:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 12:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 13:13 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-03-18 19:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-18 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-18 22:54 ` Chris Mason
2004-03-18 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-19 20:46 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-19 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-19 3:07 ` Eric St-Laurent
2004-03-19 11:23 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-03-19 13:35 ` Chris Mason
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