Re: Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

[Con Kolivas]

Zwane Mwaikambo writes:

> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:12:28AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > >
> > >>I've conducted some of the old fashioned Benno's latency test on this
> > >
> > >
> > > is that the test which skews with irq's disabled ? (eg uses normal
> > > interrupts and not nmi's for it's initial time inrq)
> >
> > It probably is; in which case all these results would be useless, no?
> >
> > http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/latencytest-0.42.tar.gz
>
> I think Arjan is referring to rtl_latencytest.c

So to state the bleedingly obvious, this would make these benchmark results 
valid.

If you're interested the command I used was:
./do_tests none 3 256 0 1500000000
as root

Which uses a 1.5Gb file during the disk i/o tests since my machine has 1Gb 
ram.

Con
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