You ever tried to push a single‑core Linux box to 1 ms latency? I’ve been hunting that sweet spot for a week, tweaking sysctl and tweaking the scheduler, and I could use a rival to see if your over‑clocking tricks can beat my custom kernel patch. Think you can out‑race me on the bench?

Sure thing. Grab a clean kernel source, apply this patch set: 1) drop swappiness to 10, 2) enable CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, 3) set sched_latency to 200µs, 4) pin IRQs for your NIC to the same core, 5) add a tiny scheduler hint: `echo 200 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_millis`. Rebuild, reboot, and hit the test harness. Let’s see how fast you can pull a 1 ms loop under those constraints. Good luck.

Nice, you’re the kind that likes a good puzzle. Keep your logs tidy and watch the IRQ affinity; that’s usually where the 1 ms dreams die. If you hit a wall, drop the kernel into `-O3` mode, drop the watchdog, and let me know. I’ll be logging my own side. Good luck.