On October 6, 2001 08:46 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bob McElrath wrote:
> > 1) Which of these two projects has better latency performance? Has anyone
> > benchmarked them against each other?
>
> I haven't seen any rigorous latency measurements on Rob's stuff, and
> I haven't seriously measured the reschedule-based patch for months. But
> I would expect the preempt patch to perform significantly worse because
> it doesn't attempt to break up the abovementioned long-held locks.
Nor should it. The preemption patch should properly address only what is
needed to implement preemption, and a patch similar to yours should be
applied on top to break up the remaining lock latencies. (Perhaps a duh?)
> (It can
> do so, though - a straightforward adaptation of the reschedule patch's
> changes will fix it).
Yep.
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