Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] Output stall data in debugfs | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:17:55 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 13:31 -0700, Alex Neronskiy wrote: > > > I mean, we're at the point where a PREEMPT=y kernel has a pretty decent > > latency and the PREEMPT_RT kernels live at ~30us. So wth are you > > measuring? > Well, not all kernels have PREEMPT. Chromebook kernels don't, for example.
Can one infer from that statement that the purpose is trying to measure non preempt latency? Why not use the tracer build for that purpose?
Still the watchdog ticks at 1s intervals or so, anything that takes that long, even on voluntary preemption kernels is quite insane.
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