Re: [patch] Latency Tracer, voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc4-O6

Lee Revell
2004-08-17T07:56:08Z

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 03:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > + return nbytes;
> > +
>
> since this effectively disables the random driver i cannot add it to the
> patch.
>

Yes, I figured as much, this is more of a temporary workaround, so we
can continue to identify other issues - otherwise this one shows up
constantly in latency_trace.

> there's another thing you could try: various SHA_CODE_SIZE values in
> drivers/char/random.c. Could you try 1, 2 and 3, does it change the
> overhead as seen in the trace?
>

Sure, I will test this.

Lee