Re: Ingo's lowlatency-test7-A0 excellent latencies (<1msec), but kernel filesync problems ...

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 01:50:34 EST


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Benno Senoner wrote:

> I can only say that it looks VERY promising ( < 1msec latencies !)

cool! thanks for the testing.

> But there seems to be problems with the kernel disk sync code:
> After the disk stress test, I call the "sync" command, but unfortunately
> the sync process hangs and eats 100% of the CPU (but no kernel crash)

i dont think it really hangs, it's just probably very slow to do the
restart loop. I've seen this before, i'll make it faster.

> (let us know please when you port the patch to test8)

ok.

        Ingo

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