Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc1-mm3-V0.7.25-1

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 08:20:33 EST



* Gunther Persoons <gunther_persoons@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As i thought the init scripts were my problem. But i have an other
> question. I recently started to use NFS. But with the mainline kernel
> cpu usage is 100%, and when i look in top si shows bewteen 40 and 60%
> cpu usage. With your kernel si is 0%, but ksoftriqd/0 shows around 38%
> cpu usage and total cpu usage is around 52%. Is this normal? on my
> server cpu usage is 2% but it uses a intel network card. My laptop is
> using a wireless pcmcia card (cisco).

normally the RT kernel has higher system overhead (all IRQ traffic goes
to separate thread contexts, involving context-switching, etc.) so a
_reduction_ in system overhead looks a bit strange. Is there a
difference in performance?

Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/