From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Testing the effects of the low latency patch
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:23:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C50B37C.9EACC94B@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C50AC22.7090203@lexus.com> <3C50AEE1.2300BB05@zip.com.au> <3C50B185.40006@lexus.com>
J Sloan wrote:
>
> >>2.4.18-pre6+tux+nfs-fixes
> >>-------------
> >>...
> >>7.6 1
> >>7.8 1
> >>21.1 1
> >>
> >
> >This is the stock kernel. In twenty minutes you suffered
> >precisely *one* scheduling overrun which is perceptible
> >by a human. The rest are much shorter than your monitor's
> >refresh interval. Interesting, yes?
> >
> Yes, the stock kernel is much improved from
> say 6 months ago. I will take a look at the
> kernel that shipped with my distro just for
> giggles as well...
>
Was you histogram generated during a game session, or during
dbench? write()-intensive workloads are the main common
offender.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 0:51 Testing the effects of the low latency patch J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-25 1:14 ` J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-25 1:37 ` J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:19 ` J Sloan
2002-01-25 1:39 ` Mark Hahn
2002-01-25 2:26 ` J Sloan
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