linux-kernel - Re: PREEMPT

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:45:28 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Patrik Kluba <kpajko79@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PREEMPT_RCU on UP

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:10:02AM -0700, Patrik Kluba wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Does the preemptible RCU implementation have better performance (lower
> latency?) than the classic RCU implementation on embedded uniprocessor
> systems? I can't find any information about this in Documentation/.

I would expect that you would get the best latencies on UP by using
the -rt patchset and preemptible RCU.  I don't know that anyone has
carefully measured the combination of vanilla CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel
and preemptible RCU on UP.

							Thanx, Paul
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