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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 10:23:23 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00
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On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:49, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>> I think I see.  Do you have a swag as to how much runtime overhead
>> using softirq's only might cause? [...]
>
>should be barely measurable for desktop workloads. For servers it
> might be significant, depending on the amount of IRQ traffic. For
> any box doing less than 2000-3000 irqs/sec it should be very small.
>
> Ingo

Chuckle, for me that would be a 'mox nix' using the english 
spelling. :-)  And seti made a liar out of me, it did do 7 units 
yesterday.

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