Re: latency & real-time-ness.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 15:55:59 EST

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> I'm running the program at nice -18.
> So, what kind of things can I do to decrease the latency?

Hack up the ksoftirq stuff to only fall back to ksoftirqd after about
500 iterations instead of one is one little detail to deal with

> Would the low-latency patch help me?

Yes
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