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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: woho@woho.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [-rt] time-related problems with CPU frequency scaling
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:32:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145341947.23853.3.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604180811.13110.woho@woho.de>

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:11 +0200, Wolfgang Hoffmann wrote:
> So I misunderstood preempt_max_latency. I thought it to be absolute
> time, but it actually is codepath cycles, translated to microseconds
> using the current CPU frequency. Thanks for clarifying.  

They are one and the same.  At 800Mhz the same code patch causes twice
the latency.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-16 18:41 [-rt] time-related problems with CPU frequency scaling Wolfgang Hoffmann
2006-04-17 22:35 ` Lee Revell
2006-04-18  6:11   ` Wolfgang Hoffmann
2006-04-18  6:32     ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-04-20 18:39 ` Wolfgang Hoffmann

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