From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 21:16:35 +0200
>> Nevertheless I was going to repeat the performance measurements on a >> recent kernel but haven't gotten around to that yet because the >> measurements need to be performed with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL to >> be reliable (a vanilla kernel is too jittery), so I have to create >> a new branch with RT patches on the test machine, which is fairly >> involved and time consuming. > > I assume you will then mainline the changes, so you don't need to do > it again? That is the problem with doing development work on a dead > kernel. I think the limitation is outside of his control as not all of the RT patches are in mainline yet.