Re: RCU latency regression in 2.6.16-rc1

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 03:20:00 EST


On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:51 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> well, softirq preemption is not really a drastic step - its biggest
> problem is that it cannot be included in v2.6.16 ;-) But i agree that
> if a solution can be found to break up a latency path, that is
> preferred.
>

Agreed. It's only drastic in the context of my target (meeting a 1ms
soft RT constraint) as this happens to be the one of the only code paths
getting in the way. Also I'd like to be able to go down to 1ms without
requiring a custom kernel config...

Lee

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