On 5/17/20 9:30 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> > Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 21:16:35 +0200 > >>> Nevertheless I was going to repeat the performance measurements on a >>> recent kernel but haven't gotten around to that yet because the >>> measurements need to be performed with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL to >>> be reliable (a vanilla kernel is too jittery), so I have to create >>> a new branch with RT patches on the test machine, which is fairly >>> involved and time consuming. >> >> I assume you will then mainline the changes, so you don't need to do >> it again? That is the problem with doing development work on a dead >> kernel. > > I think the limitation is outside of his control as not all of the RT > patches are in mainline yet.
So how shall we proceed here? Some basic measurement results are here, for the reference [1]. [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg643099.html