From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261952AbVFWBMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:12:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261953AbVFWBMA (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:12:00 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:34834 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261952AbVFWBLo (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:11:44 -0400 Message-ID: <42BA0ED4.80207@opersys.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:22:28 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: Ingo Molnar , Bill Huey , Kristian Benoit , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, pmarques@grupopie.com, bruce@andrew.cmu.edu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ak@muc.de, sdietrich@mvista.com, dwalker@mvista.com, hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, rpm@xenomai.org Subject: Re: PREEMPT_RT vs I-PIPE: the numbers, part 2 References: <1119287612.6863.1.camel@localhost> <20050620183115.GA27028@nietzsche.lynx.com> <42B98B20.7020304@opersys.com> <20050622192927.GA13817@nietzsche.lynx.com> <20050622200554.GA16119@elte.hu> <42B9CC98.1040402@opersys.com> <20050622220428.GA28906@elte.hu> <42B9F673.4040100@opersys.com> <20050623000607.GB11486@elte.hu> <42BA069D.20208@opersys.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Lang wrote: > I know that I have a large number of slow (<200MHz) pentiums that are just > sitting around at home and could be used for this, but I don't know if > they would be considered fast enough for any portions of this test (I have > a much smaller number of faster machines that could possibly be used) I don't think that there should be any limitation on the type of hardware being tested. In fact, I would think that having as diverse a test hardware as possible would be a good thing. Many of the embedded platforms are in fact not that far different from those slow pentiums you have lying around. My 0.02$, Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546