-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > * dave_sperry@xxxxxxxx <dasperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Thanks for all the input Ingo, Here's a list of all the permutations > > I've tried: > > one thing i noticed is that cyclesoak interferes with the netperf > workload. This is quite surprising. 'top' and 'vmstat' output is > reliable on -rt, and the overhead goes down if i stop cyclesoak. > > Ingo I see the same effect setup Thruput CPU% cyclesoak on 2.6.21-rc5-rt8 937 74% netperf @51 hardirq @50 softirq @50 cyclesoak off 2.6.21-rc5-rt8 938 65% netperf @51 hardirq @50 softirq @50 Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html