Re: [patch] latency tracer, 2.6.15-rc7

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> It seems that the networking code's use of RCU can cause 10ms+
> latencies:

Hmm. Is there a big jump at the 10ms mark? Do you have a 100Hz timer 
source? 

A latency jump at 10ms would tend to indicate a missed wakeup that 
was "picked up" by the next timer tick.

		Linus
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