Re: [patch] preempt-timing-on-2.6.8-rc2-O2

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sat Aug 07 2004 - 21:41:15 EST


On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 22:33, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> This seems to be 996us spent in do_IRQ() when it interrupts idle tasks.

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 10:36:55PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I am not sure I understand how preemption can be disabled for 996us and
> not cause an xrun.

You were idling at the time, so the latency affected nothing, except
perhaps task migration on SMP.


-- wli
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