Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00

[Ingo Molnar]

* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think I see.  Do you have a swag as to how much runtime overhead 
> using softirq's only might cause? [...]

should be barely measurable for desktop workloads. For servers it might 
be significant, depending on the amount of IRQ traffic. For any box 
doing less than 2000-3000 irqs/sec it should be very small.

	Ingo
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