in general (except of course those netdev folks that are interested in
-rt+networking performance matters) i'd suggest we analyze this in an
-rt specific way - netdev shouldnt have to bother about this.
one thing to check would be whether both kernels use the same
clocksource, via:
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
but at first sight there's no clocksource related overhead in the
oprofile.
Ingo
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