Re: ~5x greater CPU load for a networked application when using 2.6.15-rt15-smp vs. 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4

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Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:55:56PM -0500, Gautam H Thaker wrote:
> 
>>The real-time patches at the URL below do a great job of endowing Linux with
>>real-time capabilities.
>>
>>http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/
>>
>>It has been documented before (and accepted) that this patch turns Linux into
>>a RT kernel but considerably slows down the code paths, esp. thru the I/O
>>subsystem. I want to provide some additional measurements and seek opinions
>>of if it might ever be possible to improve on this situation.
> 
> 
> Are you using the SLAB or SLOB allocator in the -rt kernel?

lake> grep SL config.2.6.15-rt15-smp
CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
# CONFIG_SLOB is not set




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Gautam H. Thaker
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