On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:True, and I just couldn't agree more with Lee that lots of the delays that one looks at is because of user space. Still, I have some doubt on how faster 2.6 is sometimes, where 2.4 is faster in other things.
Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding
scheduler related interactivity regressions.
I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are
scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO issues (bad scheduling or
just plain bad drivers), and then sometimes just VM misbehaviour.
People are looking at all these RT patches, when the thing is that most
nobody will ever be able to tell the difference between 10us and 1ms
latencies unless it causes a skip in audio.
Linus.Alejandro