From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754330AbcHSMer (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:34:47 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:35910 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752067AbcHSMeq (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:34:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:34:37 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: GeHao Kang Cc: Chris Metcalf , fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: Context switch latency in tickless isolated CPU Message-ID: <20160819123437.GE10121@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <86f3248c-defd-f200-9eb6-bdf420771745@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:25:00AM +0800, GeHao Kang wrote: > Is the increased time fixed in each context switch? Because this increased time > will be the latency of the real time application, we hope to confirm it. > Thanks. Why are you wanting to use nohz_full if you do syscalls?