Patching The Linux Kernel

I have followed the process below:

Fedora Core 6
In a first step, the yum repository must be configured. The .repo file is available in Ingo Molnar's project directory [url].
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# wget http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/rt.repo
Only the first time, yum must be called in installation mode:
# yum install kernel-rt
Later on, the command
# yum update kernel-rt
will update the kernel patch, should a more recent version be available. By default, the newly installed kernel is made the default boot kernel. The realtime-enabled kernel is, therefore, immediately active after the system has been restarted.
To check if enabled type:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/kernel_preemption
1
Then this:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/preempt_max_latency
39
As an debugging aid, the condition that led to this latency is also available:
# cat /proc/latency_trace
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.19-1.rt10.0001
--------------------------------------------------------------------
latency: 39 us, #2/2, CPU#0 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:1 HP:1 #P:1)
-----------------
| task: posix_cpu_timer-3 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
-----------------
_------=> CPU#
/ _-----=> irqs-off
| / _----=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
|||| /
||||| delay
cmd pid ||||| time | caller
/ ||||| | /
<...>-3 0...1 39us : __schedule (__schedule)
As a role of thumb, the maximum (worst-case) latency amounts to approximately 105 / clock frequency on an idle system. For example, a maximum latency of about 100 microseconds can be expected in a 1 GHz-CPU. If the value displayed is off by more than one order of magnitude, something is not working correctly.

Totally lost here! can someone explain this latency figure of 39, how do I know if this is good or bad figure?