Ingo, Here are some more results: Nvidia w/cyclesoak 2.6.21-rc5-rt10 938 32% netperf @51 hardirq @50 softirq @50 Nvidia w/top 2.6.21-rc5-rt12 938 31% netperf @51 hardirq @50 softirq @50 Hopefully I'll run some more tests in the morning Thanks, Dave -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > > * dave_sperry@xxxxxxxx <dasperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > rt10 shows a big improvement over rt8 > > > > ################################################## > > etup Thruput CPU% > > Nvidia > > 2.6.21-rc5-rt8 938 65% > > netperf @51 > > hardirq @50 > > softirq @50 > > > > Nvidia > > 2.6.21-rc5-rt10 938 32% > > netperf @51 > > hardirq @50 > > softirq @50 > > cool! Btw., could you run the same but without running cyclesoak, and > only watching the 'idle' metric in 'top' or vmstat? I found in my > experiments that cyclesoak sometimes interfers with the workload - and > the idle stats are precise and accurate on -rt. (they are not on > vanilla) > > Ingo - 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