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Subject: Re: 2.6.1 Scheduler Latency Measurements (Preemption diabled/enabled)
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Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Christoph Stueckjuergen wrote:


snip

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>> PS: I am not subscribed, please CC me if you answer!
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> Have you considered repeating your test on 2.6.3-rc3-mm1 or similar 
> with all of the most recent thinking on scheduling?
>

They shouldn't make a difference here. Christoph is using
realtime scheduling, so he's really measuring preempt off
time + context switch overhead. The actual scheduler can't
really help here.