wiki page (was: Re: [linux-audio-user] dipping toes in 2.6 waters)

[Florian Schmidt]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:50:35 -0400
Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> It looks like many latency fixes from the voluntary preemption patch
> are going into the -mm series.  Search this post for 'latency', it
> appears that the filemap_sync issue (which caused apt-get to trigger
> an xrun) is addressed, as well as several others.  One of the more
> interesting items added is 'low latency RCU'.

Ah ok, but i wonder how this can have any effect w/o the rest of the
voluntary preemption stuff? I don't see the VP keyword in the lkml
post..

> 
> So, althouh Ingo has been quieter lately, problems are being fixed.
> 
> Here is the announcement:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/8/125
> 
> There is no voluntary preemption patch available yet for -mm2, as this
> annonucement is just a few hours old.  It seems likely that future
> 'voluntary preemption' patches for the -mm series would consist of
> little more than the irq-threading feature.  This would fit the new
> development model very well.

btw: O4 against rc3 has just been announced..

Flo

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