Re: PREEMPT_RT vs ADEOS: the numbers, part 1

[Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:54 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James R Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo, if you could document the right options required for decent 
> > performace somewhere it would be quite helpful (maybe in 
> > Documentation/rt-preempt?).  My first test of Preempt-RT showed 
> > unexpectedly high overhead for a fairly benign network load (120 UDP 
> > packets/sec), but that was likely the result of leaving some debugging 
> > options on.
> 
> agreed, this needs to be addressed.
> 
> in the latest patch (-48-17 or later) i have changed the debugging 
> options to default to off. (this wont turn them off if your .config has 
> them turned on already, but will turn them off for new testers' 
> .configs)
> 
> I also added a prominent boot-time message that, if certain 
> high-overhead debugging options are enabled, says:
> 
> *****************************************************************************
> *                                                                           *
> * WARNING, the following debugging options are turned on in your .config:   *
> *                                                                           *
> *        CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_LOCKING_MODE                                       *
> *        CONFIG_RT_DEADLOCK_DETECT                                          *
> *        CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT                                               *
> *        CONFIG_CRITICAL_PREEMPT_TIMING                                     *
> *        CONFIG_CRITICAL_IRQSOFF_TIMING                                     *
> *        CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACE                                               *
> *        CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB                                                  *
> *                                                                           *
> * they may increase runtime overhead and latencies considerably!            *
> *                                                                           *
> *****************************************************************************
> 
> wrt. documentation - i'm not a big doc writer, but i'm taking patches
> :-)
> 
> 	Ingo

Thanks, that will help us getting better results from PREEMPT_RT.

Kristian