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Bug#972709: Wishlist/RFC: Change to CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE in linux-image-cloud-*



On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 13:45 -0800, Flavio Veloso Soares wrote:
> [Resending: just noticed that the reply I sent on Oct 23 didn't include 
> b.d.o]
> 
> I don't think the article is about the same thing we're talking here. 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT* options control the compromise between latency and 
> throughput of *system calls* and *scheduling of CPU cycles spent in 
> kernel mode*, not network traffic.

The latency of requests to services on a server is affected by both
scheduler and network latency.

[...]
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find many comprehensive benchmarks of kernel 
> CONFIG_PREEMPT* options. The one at 
> https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/12/23/linux-preemption-latency-throughput.html 
> seems to be very thorough,
[...]

Not particularly.  I'm used to latency benchmarks showing e.g. average,
90th percentile, 99th percentile, as well as worst.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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