From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266507AbUGKHJv (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:09:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266509AbUGKHJv (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:09:51 -0400 Received: from mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.167]:57283 "EHLO mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266507AbUGKHJe (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:09:34 -0400 References: <20040709182638.GA11310@elte.hu> <20040709195105.GA4807@infradead.org> <20040710124814.GA27345@elte.hu> <40F0075C.2070607@kolivas.org> <20040710151455.GA29140@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40F008B0.8020702@kolivas.org> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Con Kolivas To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 17:09:07 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zwane Mwaikambo writes: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Con Kolivas wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:12:28AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: >> > >> >>I've conducted some of the old fashioned Benno's latency test on this >> > >> > >> > is that the test which skews with irq's disabled ? (eg uses normal >> > interrupts and not nmi's for it's initial time inrq) >> >> It probably is; in which case all these results would be useless, no? >> >> http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/latencytest-0.42.tar.gz > > I think Arjan is referring to rtl_latencytest.c So to state the bleedingly obvious, this would make these benchmark results valid. If you're interested the command I used was: ./do_tests none 3 256 0 1500000000 as root Which uses a 1.5Gb file during the disk i/o tests since my machine has 1Gb ram. Con