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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: Using patch-2.6.33.7.2-rt30 increases latency and CPU usage?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:06:41 -0400
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On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:58 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:

> Thanks for the tip.  I'll keep that in mind for some other projects
> that would need latency times in the 100-200us range, which should be
> doable.

If it isn't doable, definitely report it. For modern intel hardware, we
are expecting all response times under 100us. Otherwise we consider it a
bug. Except for the cases where the hardware itself is the cause (SMIs
and other nasties).

-- Steve