Re: Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

Con Kolivas
2004-07-11T09:30:21Z

Ingo Molnar writes:

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> * Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
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>> >>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
>
> did you run latencytest as root?

I wish it were that simple to fix it. Here's what I said later in this
thread:

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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.
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Con