* Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is an updated version of that patch against 2.6.16-rc1. I have
> > sanity-tested it on ppc64 and x86_64 using dbench and kernbench.
> > I have also tested this for OOM situations - open()/close() in
> > a tight loop in my x86_64 which earlier used to reach file limit
> > if I set batch limit to 10 and found no problem. This patch does set
> > default RCU batch limit to 10 and changes it only when there is an RCU
> > flood.
>
> OK this seems to work, I can't tell yet whether it help the latency I
> reported, but rt_run_flush still produces terrible latencies.
>
> Ingo, should I try the softirq preemption patch + Dipankar's patch +
> latency tracing patch?
yes, that would be a nice test. (I'm busy now with mutex stuff to be
able to do a working softirq-preemption patch, but i sent you my current
patches off-list - if you want to give it a shot. Be warned though,
there will likely be quite some merging work to do, so it's definitely
not for the faint hearted.)
Ingo
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