Re: RT patch acceptance

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On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 19:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sven Dietrich <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I think people would find their system responsiveness / tunability
> >  goes up tremendously, if you drop just a few unimportant IRQs into
> >  threads.
> 
> People cannot detect the difference between 1000usec and 50usec latencies,
> so they aren't going to notice any changes in responsiveness at all.

The IDE IRQ handler can in fact run for several ms, which people sure
can detect.

Lee

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