Re: Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

[Con Kolivas]

Ingo Molnar writes:

> * Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> did you run latencytest as root?

I wish it were that simple to fix it. Here's what I said later in this 
thread:

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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.
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Con

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