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

2020-11-25 Thread Flavio Veloso Soares
Thank you for contributing to the discussion. I agree that the page I cited lacks a lot (I mentioned it), but unfortunately that's the best one I could find that touches the subject. Naturally a benchmark would be ideal, but again unfortunately I don't have the resources to do one myself now.

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

2020-11-22 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 03:53:32PM -0800, Flavio Veloso Soares wrote: > Unfortunately, I couldn't find many comprehensive benchmarks of kernel > CONFIG_PREEMPT* options. The one at > > [1]https://www.codeblueprint.co.uk/2019/12/23/linux-preemption-latency-throughput.html > seems to be very

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

2020-11-22 Thread Flavio Veloso Soares
On 2020-11-22 2:28 p.m., Ben Hutchings wrote: 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

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

2020-11-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
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 >

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

2020-11-22 Thread Flavio Veloso Soares
[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

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

2020-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 13:43 -0700, Flavio Veloso wrote: > Package: linux-image-cloud-amd64 > Version: 4.19+105+deb10u7 > Severity: wishlist > > Since cloud images are mostly run for server workloads in headless > environments accessed via network only, it would be better if >

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

2020-10-22 Thread Flavio Veloso
Package: linux-image-cloud-amd64 Version: 4.19+105+deb10u7 Severity: wishlist Since cloud images are mostly run for server workloads in headless environments accessed via network only, it would be better if "linux-image-cloud-*" kernels were compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y ("No Forced