Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.32-15

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com <Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com> wrote:

> The maximum duration of the CPU loop (as measured by the application)
> is in the range of 1.42 msec to 2.57 compared to the nominal 1.16 msec
> duration for -20RT.  The equivalent numbers for -20PK are 1.28 to 1.93
> msec. [...]

so -20RT has resolved all the CPU-loop-max-delay issues of the -RT
kernel regarding the RT-priority CPU loop and in essence adds only a
small amount of delay (100 usecs?) to the nominal (==minimum possible)
delay?

i suspect the 100 usecs comparison is an effect of the cutoff value
being a single value. Also, 100 usecs is so close to the DMA related
delay which makes it hard to compare it - other than stating that -RT
has higher CPU overhead.

are the ping times still considered anomalous? Could be a side-effect of
the different flow of control between hardirq/softirq contexts. (There
have been a (low but nonzero) number of assumptions about the flow in
pieces of softirq code, and there could be more.)

	Ingo