Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
run a simple test using OpenLDAP 2.3.28 running on Linux 2.6.17 with RTAI, compared to the stock 2.3.6.15 kernel f the distribution
^^^^^^^^ Do you mean stock 2.6.15?
- searching for the same entry, after it's in cache, requires ~0.008s w/
RTAI, and ~0.080s w/o RTAI (ten times longer! It's a slightly different kernel, but running on exactly the same machine, [..]
Are you sure there haven't been any significant changes to the scheduler between these two kernel versions anyway? Also distributions most times ship with a patched kernel. So exact comparison should be done with a vanilla kernel and the very same kernel with RTAI.
Ciao, Michael.