Re: RT patch acceptance

[Ingo Molnar]

* Bill Huey <bhuey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's really no good reason why this kernel can't get the same 
> latency as a nanokernel. The scheduler paths are riddled with SMP 
> rebalancing stuff and the like which contributes to overall system 
> latency. Remove those things and replace it with things like direct 
> CPU pining and you'll start seeing those numbers collapse. [...]

could you be a bit more specific? None of that stuff should show up on 
UP kernels. Even on SMP, rebalancing is either asynchronous, or O(1).

	Ingo
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