Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay()

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 18:12 -0800, John Hawkes wrote:
> From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > There are 10 drivers that udelay(10000) or more and a TON that
> > udelay(1000).  Turning those all into 1ms+ non preemptible sections will
> > be very bad.
> 
> What about 100usec non-preemptible sections?

That will disappear into the noise, in normal usage these happen all the
time.  500usec non preemptible regions are rare (~1 hour to show up) and
1ms very rare (24 hours).  My tests show that 300 usec or so is a good
place to draw the line if you don't want it to show up in latency tests.

Lee

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