Kernel 2.6 Real-Time Benchmarks

An anonymous reader writes "This whitepaper at LinuxDevices.com includes benchmarks comparing the real-time performance of the vers. 2.4 and 2.6 linux kernels, based on LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux 5.0 beta. The graphs compare the results for average and worst-case measurements of both interrupt response and task switch performance for the two kernels, running on a 1GHz Pentium III under relatively heavy load. Check it out -- there's an enormous improvement. The article also includes a rundown of other features of the new kernel that seem likely to be welcomed by embedded developers."

Comments

Re:What about the interactivity patches?

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Playing music on a 2.6 kernel is certainly not perfect, especially in the first 30 seconds of a song with xmms. During this time xmms is probably loading the song and the disk access holds back the music stream.

Performance is, however, much better than with 2.4.