Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT and server workloads

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:09:48PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:17:47PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Technically, I think preempt can still reduce maximum latency
> > depending on whether the time between explicit resched checks
> > is greater than the (small) scheduling overhead that preempt
> > adds.
> > But yeah, that would be in the noise compared with long
> > preempt-off regions.
> > I'm not sure about applications, but maybe some soft-realtime
> > things like audio software benefit from a lower average latency
> > (I don't know).
> 
> Someone really needs to get numbers on this stuff.

Takashi already did it and we know it doesn't reduce the maximum latency.
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